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A collection of 50 buttons is in a jar. The probability of reaching into the jar and retrieving a black button is 0.64. What is the probability that you will reach in the jar and retrieve a button that is not black?

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Answer: The probability of reaching into the jar and retrieving a black button is 0.64. Therefore, the probability of reaching into the jar and retrieving a button that is not black is the complement of this probability, which is 1 - 0.64 = 0.36.

In other words, the probability of not getting a black button is the same as the probability of getting a non-black button, which includes all the other colored buttons in the jar. Since there are no other details given in the problem regarding the number of non-black buttons or the probability of retrieving each non-black button, we assume that they are all equally likely to be retrieved and simply calculate the probability of not getting a black button as the complement of the probability of getting a black button.

Therefore, the probability of reaching in the jar and retrieving a button that is not black is 0.36 or 36%.

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