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There are 5 yellow marbles and 8 orange marbles in a bag. You randomly choose one of the marbles. What is the probability of choosing a yellow marble? Write your answer as a fraction in simplest form.

The probability of choosing a yellow marble is _?_

User Tihauan
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First you would add 8 and 5 which is 13 then since you are looking for yellow you put 5 as the numerator and 13 as the denominator. Hope this helped!
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