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A bag contains 1 green marble, 2 yellow marbles, 4 blue marbles, and 5 red marbles. How many blue marbles would you need to add the original bag of marbles to make the probability of drawing a blue marble 1/2?

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You need to add 4 more blue marbles, then there will be 8 blue marbles and the probability of drawing a blue one will be 8 out of 16 (the total of marbles)

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8/16 = 1/2

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