A bag of marbles has 12 green marbles, 5 red marbles, 8 blue marbles and 7 yellow marbles. What is the probability of randomly selecting a blue marble?

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asked Aug 20, 2024 153k views

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Todoy · Answer 1 · 2024-08-24T23:12:24+0000

Probability = # of desired options / # of total options

Our desired option is blue and there are 9 blue marbles in the bag.

There are 32 total marbles (options) in the bag.

P(blue) = 9 / 32 = 0.28125 = 28.125%

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