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A bag contains 3 red marbles, 4 blue marbles, and 2 yellow marbles. What is the probability of pulling out a blue marble?

User Kingkong
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the chances of picking a blue marble is 4/9, cause blue marble picked = number it blue marbles / total number of marbles that are in the bag which is 9
User Aleksey Bilogur
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Probability of pulling out the Blue Marbels = 4/9

Explanation:

Red Marbels = 3

Blue Marbels = 4

Yellow Marbels = 2

Total Marbels = 9

P( Blue Marbels) = Number of favorable outcomes/Total number of possible outcomes = 4/9

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