A bag contains 12 marbles, of which 3 are white. What is the probability that a randomly selected marble will be white? Write your answer as a fraction or whole number.

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A bag contains 12 marbles, of which 3 are white.

What is the probability that a randomly selected marble will be white?

Write your answer as a fraction or whole number.

Mathematics
high-school

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Answer:

1/4

Explanation:

3/12 simplifies to 1/4 and there's really not much to explain after that

Torus answered May 2, 2022

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