Given distribution of color beads: blue, black, yellow, white and brown with frequencies 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5 respectively. Find the probability that a bead pi...

Given distribution of color beads: blue, black, yellow, white and brown with frequencies 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5 respectively. Find the probability that a bead picked at random will be blue or white.

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There are a total of 1+2+3+4+5 = 15 beads. The probability of picking a blue bead is 1/15, since there is only one blue bead out of the total of 15 beads. The probability of picking a white bead is 4/15, since there are 4 white beads out of the total of 15 beads. To find the probability of picking a blue or white bead, we add the probabilities of picking a blue bead and a white bead: P(blue or white) = P(blue) + P(white) P(blue or white) = 1/15 + 4/15 P(blue or white) = 5/15 P(blue or white) = 1/3 Therefore, the probability of picking a blue or white bead is 1/3.