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Your friend brings a large bag of candy to class. In the bag of candy, there...

Your friend brings a large bag of candy to class. In the bag of candy, there are 34 red candies, 47 blue candies, 23 orange candies, 12 yellow candies, 38 green candies, and 87 purple candies.

Using this information answer the questions below:

b. Your friend is going to reach into the bag and remove one candy at a time. Before your friend starts removing candies, you want to calculate the probability of selecting candies, in a specific order?

(Hint: Remember, each time a candy is removed from the bag, the total number of candies decreases)

P (red, purple, & green) =

P (red, blue, purple, & green) =

P (purple, yellow, red, orange, & purple) =

P (yellow, yellow, purple, purple, red, & red) =

P (red, red, green, purple, yellow, red, orange, yellow, & red) =

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