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There is a bag with only red marbles and blue marbles. The probability of randomly choosing a blue marble is 1/8. There are 56 marbles in total in the bag and each is equally likely to be chosen. Work
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There is a bag with only red marbles and blue marbles.

The probability of randomly choosing a blue marble is
1/8. There are 56 marbles in total in the bag and each is equally likely to be chosen.
Work out how many red marbles there must be.

User Tholle
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Answer:

There are 7 red marbles

Explanation:

1/8=x/56

x= 56/8

x= 7

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