A bag contains lemon-flavoured candies only. Hema takes out one candy without looking into the bag. What is the probability that she takes out (i) an orange-flavoured candy? (ii) a lemon-flavoured candy?
Total number of elementary events is: 1
(i) Let E be the event of taking orange –flavoured candy
The favourable number of outcomes = 0
Because bag has lemon flavoured candies only
∴ P (E) = 0/1 =0
(ii) Let E be the event of getting a lemon flavoured candy
The favourable number of outcomes = 1
Probability of sure event is: 1
∴ P (lemon-flavoured candy) = P (E) = 1/1 = 1