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a bag has 5 white marbles, 8 red marbles and 4 purple marbles. if we take a marble randomly, then what is the probability of not getting purple marble?
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a bag has 5 white marbles, 8 red marbles and 4 purple marbles. if we take a marble randomly, then what is the probability of not getting purple marble?

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13/17 because you add all the numbers together. So 5+8+4=17 that’s the total of all the marbles put into the bag. Now if you were to pick a marble you have 17 marbles to choose from. You want to see what is the chance of not getting purple so you would subtract 4 from 17. Why because you want to see how many other colors you may get before purple and that’s how you get 13.
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