Abowl contains candies of the same size in three flavors orange strawberry and pineapple. if the probability of randomly pulling out an orange candy is 1/9, and the probability of randomly pulling out a strawberry candy is 2/9, what is the probability of randomly pulling out a pineapple candy?

D 6 out of 9

Step-by-step explanation:

think about it this way, if you have only 3 different types of candy that you can pull from a bag, and the two candies probably is already listed, then you can find the third candy but taking the total about of the two listed probability of picking a candy (in this case it would be 3/9) and subtract that from the total amount of candies in the bag.  

3/9 - 9/9 = 6/9

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call the larger triangle abc

then the smaller triangle cde is similar to abc (all angles are equal, aaa).  

ab is the side that is 36, and we wish to find de, the side corresponding to ab

area_cde = area_abc - area_cde --> area_abc / area_cde = 2

let x=length of de

ratio of areas = (ratio of sides)^2

+2+=+%2836%2fx%29%5e2+

+2+=+1296%2fx%5e2+

++x%5e2+=+1296%2f2+=+648+

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