Around halloween each year the grocery store sells three-pound bags of candy containing a mixture of three diffrent mini-bars: Snickers,Milky Way and Twi. If the bag has an equal number of each of the three bars, then what are the probabilities for each of the following? a. Randomly selecting a Milky Way bar b. Randomly selecting either a Snickers or a Twix bar C. Randomly selecting something other than a Twix bar

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Section11.8: Probabilities Of Disjoint And Overlapping Events
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Around halloween each year the grocery store sells three-pound bags of candy containing a mixture of three diffrent mini-bars: Snickers,Milky Way and Twi. If the bag has an equal number of each of the three bars, then what are the probabilities for each of the following?

a. Randomly selecting a Milky Way bar

b. Randomly selecting either a Snickers or a Twix bar

C. Randomly selecting something other than a Twix bar

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