Question

A bag has
14
brown marbles and
4
red marbles. Half of the red marbles are made of glass. A marble is selected at random from the bag. What is the probability that it is a red, glass marble?

Answer 1

HELP!!!

Answer 2

how many glass red marbles are in the bag?

Answer 3

HALF OF THE RED MARBLES ARE GLASS

Answer 4

yes, what is half of four?

Answer 5

2

Answer 6

ok so there are 2 glass red marbles
how many marbles total are in the bag?

Answer 7

14

Answer 8

there is only one marble in the bag?

Answer 9

hmm i don't think it is 14
there are 14 brown and 4 red so the total is not 14

Answer 10

18

Answer 11

ok good
so there are 2 glass red marbles, 18 marbles total
the probability you pick a red glass one is the ratio of the glass red to the total, i.e \(\frac{2}{18}\)

Answer 12

ok

Answer 13

you might could reduce that fraction

Answer 14

thank you

Answer 15

yw