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A bag contains 15 blue marbles, 5 red marbles, and 11 green marbles. How many blue marbles must be removed

from the 31 marbles in the bag so that the probability of randomly drawing a blue marble is ?

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A bag contains 15 blue marbles, 5 red marbles, and 11 green marbles. How many blue marbles must be removed

from the 31 marbles in the bag so that the probability of randomly drawing a blue marble is 1/3?

Answer:

7 blue marbles

Explanation:

15 blue

5 red

11 green

Total = 31

Number of Blue marbles that must be removed to obtain a probability of :

P(blue) = 1/3

Probability = required outcome / Total possible outcomes

Let number of blue marble to be removed = x

Number of Blue becomes : 15 - x

Total becomes : 31 - x

P(blue) = 1/3

1/3 = (15 - x) / (31 - x)

1/3 * (31 - x) = 15 - x

(31 - x) / 3 = 15 - x

31 - x = 45 - 3x

-x + 3x = 45 - 31

2x = 14

x = 14 / 2

x = 7

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