Question

Question is down below

Answer 1

a )
`2 / n`,

b )
`15`

Explanation:

This is a nice and short question we have here.

Given that a bag has n counters, and that one counter is blue, respectively the rest is red, if two counters are taken at random there isn't a definite percentage that one of the counters chosen is red or blue, but there is a fractional representation of this.

We could express n ( number of counters ) to form a probability of 2 / n. As you can see, two counters are taken at random over n counters, and thus we derived this fraction.

a )
`2 / n`

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Now we have this second part -

`2 / n = 2 / 16,\\16 - 1 = 15`

Therefore, there are 15 red counters. Hope that helps!