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A bag contains 7 red marbles, 12 orange marbles, 18 yellow marbles, and 5 purple marbles. A marble is drawn at random from the bag.

What is the probability that the marble drawn will not be orange?

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It’s 5/7

Explanation:

User Panzhuli
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altogether there are 42 marbles, there are 30 other marbles not colored orange, 30:42 simplified is 15:21
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