Question

tom keeps all of his favorite marbles in a special leather bag. right now, fove red marbles, four blue marbles, and three yellow marbles are on the bag. if he randomly chooses one marble to give to a friend, what is yhe probabaility that it is blue?

Answer 1

4/12 simplified will be 1/3
Answer is 1/3.

Answer 2

To get the probability , add all of the marbles together to get the 100%. There are 12 marbles total. Since there are four blue marbles, there is a 4/12 chance he will pick a blue marble. Simplify this to 2/6, and then 1/3 which in percentage is approximately 33.33%