Question

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

Answer 1

7 red marbles

Explanation:

P( red) = red marbles / total marbles = 1/8

We know there are 56 marbles

red marbles/56 = 1/8

Multiply by 56

red marbles = 1/8 *56 = 7

There are 7 red marbles