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Across India, people gather to celebrate Holi by throwing colored dyes and water at each other.
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Happy Holi!
Every spring, people across India celebrate the start of the season with an explosion of color. Crowds gather to pelt each other with colorful dyes in all forms—powders, paints, and even water balloons filled with colored dyes! It’s all part of an annual Hindu holiday called Holi, which falls on March 13 this year. The festival is associated with Hindu legends that celebrate the triumph of good over evil.
Holi celebrations have also become popular around the world—including in the U.S. “The festival brings out the inner child in all of us,” says Caru Das, a priest at the Sri Sri Radha Krishna Temple in Spanish Fork, Utah, who helps organize Holi events in the U.S.
Say the organizers of a Holi festival pass out 20 red, 25 pink, 25 blue, 30 yellow, and 40 green colored powder packs. If you grab a powder pack at random, what’s the probability of it being yellow?