Legitimate probabilities? In each of the following situations, state whether or not the given assignment of probabilities to individual outcomes is legitimate, that is, satisfies the rules of probability. If not, give specific reasons for your answer.
(c) Plain M&M’S have not always had the mixture of colors given in Exercise 18.13. In the past there were no red candies and no blue candies. Tan had probability 0.10 and the other four colors had the same probabilities that are given in Exercise 18.13.
Exercise 18.13
Colors of M&M’S. If you draw an M&M candy at random from a bag of the candies, the candy you draw will have one of six colors. The probability of drawing each color depends on the proportion of each color among all candies made.
(a) Here are the probabilities of each color for a randomly chosen plain M&M:
What must be the probability of drawing a blue candy?
(b) The probabilities for peanut M&M’S are a bit different. Here they are:
What is the probability that a peanut M&M chosen at random is blue?
(c) What is the probability that a plain M&M is any of red, yellow, or orange? What is the probability that a peanut M&M has one of these colors?
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