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There are 3 yellow marbles and 8 silver marbles in a bag. You randomly choose one of the marbles. What is the probability of choosing a yellow marble? Write your answer as a fraction in simplest form.

User Khadim Ali
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There are 3 yellow and youre looking for the probability of picking a yellow out of the bag. So 3+8=11 and you put that into the fraction so it would be 3/11
I hope this helps :)
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Answer:

Explanation:

The probability will be number of Yellows divided by the total number of Marbles

Here there are 3 yellows and 11 marbles in total

The probability is

3/11

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