probability help

Question

According to Masterfoods, the company that manufactures M&M’s, 12% of peanut M&M’s are brown, 15% are yellow, 12% are red, 23% are blue, 23% are orange and 15% are green. [Round your answers to three decimal places, for example: 0.123]

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

 

Compute the probability that a randomly selected peanut M&M is red or brown.

 

Compute the probability that three randomly selected peanut M&M’s are all orange.

 

If you randomly select five peanut M&M’s, compute that probability that none of them are red.

 

If you randomly select five peanut M&M’s, compute that probability that at least one of them is red.

Answer 1

These are all questions which can be answered using the binomial distribution with different values of p and n. For example: P(not orange)=.77,

P(not red) = .88

etc. etc etc.