In a bag of jelly beans are red, green, purple, orange, and yellow candies. The following chart shows the number of each color of jelly beans in one particular bag. Use the chart to answer the question.
What is the probability that the first piece of candy you pull out of the bag will be yellow?
This is a table of Jelly Beans. The left column is labeled Colors. The right column is the number found in the bag. For green there are tweleve in the bag, for red eight, for orange eleven, for yellow thirteen, for purple seven.
Select the correct answer.
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The probability of pulling out a yellow jelly bean is the number of yellow jelly beans in the bag divided by the total number of jelly beans in the bag.
In this case, there are 13 yellow jelly beans and a total of 12 + 8 + 11 + 13 + 7 = 51 jelly beans in the bag.
Therefore, the probability of pulling out a yellow jelly bean is 13/51 or approximately 0.255.