Question

A bag contains 5 blue marbles, 2black marbles ,and 3 red marbles. A marine is randomly drawn from the bag The probability of not drawing a black marble is___ . The probability of drawing a red marble is____

Answer 1

80%; 30%

Explanation:

There is 5 blue marbles, 2 black marbles, and 3 red marbles. In other words, there is a total of 10 marbles.

There are only 2 black marbles and 8 marbles that are not black. Therefore, the probability of not drawing a black marble is 8/10 or 4/5 or 80%.

There are only 3 red marbles out of the 10 total marbles. Therefore, the probability of drawing a red marble is 3/10 or 30%.