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Hurrryy

A bag contains 8 blue marbles, 6 green marbles, 12 yellow marbles, and 10 orange marbles. A marble is drawn at random from the
bag
What is the probability that the marble drawn will not be blue?
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Hurrryy A bag contains 8 blue marbles, 6 green marbles, 12 yellow marbles, and 10 orange-example-1
User Chakradhar
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Add up to get the total number of marbles: (8 + 6 + 12 + 10) = 36

Then subtract the number of blue marbles from the total amount of marbles: 36 - 8 = 28.

28 signifies the amount of marbles that are NOT blue.

So the probability is: 28/36 = 0.77 = About 77%

The final answer is 7/9.

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