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There are only red, blue and green counters in a bag There are 6 red counters. There are 4 blue counters. There are 8 green counters, Matt takes a counter at random from the bag. What is the probability that the counter is red? a) Give your answer as a fraction. b) What is the probability that the counter is not blue? Give your answer as a fraction. please help

User Godzsa
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Answer:

a. 1/3

b. 7/9

Explanation:

its adding and reducing the number you get in the fraction

a is 6/18 reduced

b is 14/18 reduced

User Ladaghini
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Answer:

6/18

Hope this helps :))

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