A bag of tokens contains 5 red, 7 green, and 10 blue tokens. What is the probability that a randomly selected token is red? Enter your answer as a fraction.

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Arthur Garza asked Mar 9, 2023

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A bag of tokens contains 5 red, 7 green, and 10 blue tokens. What is the probability that a randomly selected token is red? Enter your answer as a fraction.

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Arthur Garza asked Mar 9, 2023

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Notice that the total number of tokens is:

Notice that the number of red token is 5

Therefore the probability of that a selected token is red is:

Chanchal answered Mar 13, 2023

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