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A bag contains 5 blue balls, 4 red balls, and 3 orange balls. If a ball is picked from the bag at random, what is the probability that it is a blue ball? Answers have been rounded to the tenths place

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Answer:

  • There is a 41.7% chance that you got a blue ball.

Explanation:

Total number of blue balls/Total number of balls x 100 = Chance of getting a blue ball

  • => 5/12 x 100
  • => 5/6 x 50
  • => 5/3 x 25
  • => 125/3
  • => 41.7

Hence, there is a 41.7% chance that you got a blue ball.

Hoped this helped.


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