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A bag contains 5 blue marbles, 3 red marbles, and 2 yellow marbles. You select a marble at random. What is P(yellow) ?
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A bag contains 5 blue marbles, 3 red marbles, and 2 yellow marbles. You select a marble at random. What is P(yellow) ?

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There are a total of 10 marbles. Out of those 2 are yellow.

So, the probability of picking a yellow marble is 2/10, or 1/5 simplified.


As a percentage, this is 20%

Hope this helps :)
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