A bag contains lemon flavoured candies only. Malini 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?

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(i) Given, the bag only contains lemon-flavored candies.

The number of orange-flavored candies = 0

Let the total number of lemon-flavored candies be 'x'.

So, P(Orange-flavored candies) = Favourable outcomes/Total outcomes = 0/x = 0

(ii) As there are only lemon-flavored candies,

So, P(lemon-flavored candies) = Favourable outcomes/Total outcomes = x/x = 1

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