i'll give a medal or whatever if you help
A bag contains 8 blue marbles, 6 green marbles, 12 yellow marbles, and 10 orange marbles. A marble is to be drawn from the bag without looking.

What is the probability that the marble drawn will not be blue?
a.2/9
b.3/4
c.7/9
d.7/8

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i'll give a medal or whatever if you help
A bag contains 8 blue marbles, 6 green marbles, 12 yellow marbles, and 10 orange marbles. A marble is to be drawn from the bag without looking.

What is the probability that the marble drawn will not be blue?
a.2/9
b.3/4
c.7/9
d.7/8

mertsj · Answer

How many marbles in the bag?

anonymous · Answer

36

mertsj · Answer

How many of them are NOT blue?

anonymous · Answer

28

mertsj · Answer

Then what is the probability that the marble you draw will not be blue?

anonymous · Answer

D? .-. im not good at math at all

mertsj · Answer

You don't have to be good at math to figure this out.  If you have 5 coins in your pocket:  1 nickel, 2 dimes, 2 pennies what is the chance you'll draw out a dime?

mertsj · Answer

2 chances out of 5:  2/5  would you agree?

anonymous · Answer

yeah ...

anonymous · Answer

so if I simplify it wouldn't I get 3/4?

mertsj · Answer

What are you simplifying to get 3/4?

anonymous · Answer

8/36

anonymous · Answer

oh  wait nvm

anonymous · Answer

8/28

mertsj · Answer

I thought there were 28 not blue marbles

mertsj · Answer

Let's go over this again.  There are 36 marbles in the bag.  28 are not blue.  The chance of getting a marble that is not blue is 28/36

anonymous · Answer

so it is 3/4 divide the numbers by 8 and its 3/4

mertsj · Answer

28/36=7/9