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Data Sufficiency (DS) | Re: A bag of 100 jellybeans contains cherry, licorice, and orange jellybea

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From the stem we can create the following equation:\( c + l + o =100\)

The equation for probability of drawing cherry, orange, orange, licorice in that order:\(\frac{c}{100}*\frac{o}{99}*\frac{o-1}{98}*\frac{l}{97}\)

In order to solve for the probability we need to know the amount of each flavor in thebag.

(1) The probability of pulling either a licorice or an orange jellybean is4/5.

The statement tells us that\( l + o =80\) . Subtracting this from\( c + l + o =100\) gives us\( c =20\) . However, we do not know the number of orange or licorice
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