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Consider this bag of marbles. What is the probability of drawing a green marble versus the ODDs of drawing a green marble? What is the difference in these two things? Make sure you show work, answer all questions, and write in complete sentences.

Consider this bag of marbles. What is the probability of drawing a green marble versus-example-1
User Stanwise
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Answer:

Probability: 50%

odds: 5:5

Explanation:

User Babar
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Answer:

The probability is 50% that ball will be green.

Odds 5:5

Numbers of ways to draw a green marbles: number of ways to draw another marbles.

Explanation:

Consider the provided bag of marble.

The bag contains 5 green marble, 3 blue marbles and 2 red marbles.

The total number of marbles are: 5+3+2=10

The probability of getting a green marble is: 5/10=0.5

That means the probability is 50% that ball will be green.

Drawing green marbles means we want marble should be green and ODDs of drawing a green marble means the marble is not green.

There are 5 green marbles, so there are 5 outcomes that we want (out of 10 outcomes total)

There are 10-5 = 5 outcomes that we don't want a green marble.

Number of outcomes we want is 5

Number of outcomes we don't want is 5

Odds in favor = (wanted outcomes):(unwanted outcomes)

Odds in favor = 5:5

Numbers of ways to draw a green marbles: number of ways to draw another marbles.

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