Question

A bag contains Red, Green or Yellow balls. A ball is taken at random from the bag. The probability that it is Red is 0.4 and the probability that it is Green is 0.375.What is the possible number of balls in the bag?

Answer 1

1000 balls

(there are infinitely many solutions to this question; you can scale up 1000, use a different total, etc.)

Explanation:

there are, of course, multiple possible numbers,

but the easiest way is to go with 1000, because we can say 375 / 1000 and 400 / 1000

(0.4 + 0.275 + 0.225 = 1)

400 out of 1000 balls are red (400/1000 = 4/10 = 0.4)

375 out of 1000 balls are green (375/1000 = 3.75/10 = 0.375)

225 out of 1000 balls are yellow (225/1000 = 2.25/10 = 0.225)

the question never gave detail as to if the answer should be the lowest number of possible balls, so this value is possible.

So, a possible number of balls in this bag is 1000.