Homework Help: math, pre-statistics

Posted by Sabrina on Sunday, February 8, 2009 at 5:53pm.

A gumball machine is filled randomly with gumballs:red,green,purple,white,pink and yellow. The company claims the following percentages of each can be found in an unopened carton.30%red,20%green,20%purple ,20% white,5%pink and 5%yellow. What is the probability that the first gumball to come out of the machine is either red or white.(Give answer as a percentage).

math, pre-statistics - Damon, Sunday, February 8, 2009 at 6:04pm
Half the gumballs in the machine are either red or white, so 50%

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