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A bag contains 5 blue balls, 4 red balls, and 3 orange balls. If a ball is picked from the bag at random, what is the probability that it is a blue ball? Answers have been rounded to the tenths place.

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5 / ( 5 + 4 + 3 ) = 41.6%All the balls make 100% of the balls (12), 5 balls are blue, so you divide 5 blue balls, by 100% of the balls (12) to arrive at the percentage of probability of pulling a blue ball from the bag.
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It is 0.4, the answer under is right, just convert it to decimal.

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