Question

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A bag contains only red marbles and white marbles. Tanya reached into the bag without looking, got 40 marbles, and found that 24 of the marbles were red. Tanya is going to reach in the bag again and get one more marble. What is the experimental probability that the marble will be red?

A. 3/5

B. 3/4

C. 2/5

D. 1/2

Answer 1

So what was the fraction of red marbles to total marbles?

Answer 2

24/40???

Answer 3

Can you simplify that?

Answer 4

yes will be 3/5???

Answer 5

That twould be it.

Answer 6

it's experimental probability, not theoretical. So so 24/40 = 3/5

Answer 7

Thank you!!

Answer 8

Np, thank you for thinking.