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An urn contains 10 red balls, 20 yellow balls, and 60 orange balls. If you reach into the urn and select a single ball at random, what is the probability of selecting a orange ball?

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Answer:

2/3 or 67%

Explanation:


To find the exact probability for you to reach into the orange balls you'll have to do a data table on which you'll include how many orange balls are by the total amount of balls that are within the urn.

For example:
The urn contains:

* 10 red balls
* 20 yellow balls
* 60 orange balls

Total amount of balls that you have on the urn is 90, you'll get this result by doing a simple addition of the table of content.

Afterwards, we have to find the probability, so you will have to take the amount of orange balls (which is 60) and divide it by 90 (Which is the total amount of balls you have on the urn).

60/90

A quick tip for you to do this on a simplified manner is by dividing the numerator and the denominator by their greatest common divisor (Which in this case is 30) (30x2 = 60) (30x3 = 90)

60/90 = (60 divided 30) / (90 divided 30) = 2/3

To resolve this problem, we get that the probability of selecting an orange ball is 2/3 or approximately 0.67 which we'll simplify to 67%

I hope this helped you

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