Question

A bag with 8 marbles has 4 red marbles, 3 blue marbles, and 1 yellow marble.A marble is chosen at random. What is the probability that it is red? Write your answer as a fraction in simplest form.

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Answer 1

1/4

Explanation:

First you add all of the marbles in the bag which is 16 marbles. The fraction of red marbles to the total would be 4/16. In the simplest form that is 1/4. You can also just do 4 divide by 16 which gives you 0.25 and in decimal form that is 1/4.