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A bag of marbles contains 7red 12orange 3blue and 6multicolored what is the probability of randomly selecting a marble that is not red

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3/4

There are 28 marbles in total, 21 of which are not red. This gives us a 21/28 chance that the marble is not red. 21/28 simplifies down to 3/4.

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