According to Masterfoods, the company that manufactures M&M’s, 13% of peanut M&M’s are brown, 19% are yellow, 15% are red, 6% are blue, 8% are orange and 39% are green. Write your answer as a percent. Compute the probability that a randomly selected peanut M&M is not red.  %% Compute the probability that a randomly selected peanut M&M is blue or green.  %%

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According to Masterfoods, the company that manufactures M&M’s, 13% of peanut M&M’s are brown, 19% are yellow, 15% are red, 6% are blue, 8% are orange and 39% are green. Write your answer as a percent.

Compute the probability that a randomly selected peanut M&M is not red.

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Compute the probability that a randomly selected peanut M&M is blue or green.

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