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a box contains red markers ,blue markers amd green markers . there are more blue makers than red the probability of randomly selecting a blue marker from the box is 1/5 . that is a possible probability that a randomly selected marker from he box is red?

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we are given with three markers which means the probability of finding all these three markers add up to 1. if the probability of finding a blue marker is 1/5 which is greater in number than the red marker, then the probability must be less than 1/5, i.e. 1/10.
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