A bag contains two different colored marbles. 8 are red marbles and 12 are green marbles, find the probability of a red marble.

P(red marble) =

please show all your work:)

Question

A bag contains two different colored marbles.  8 are red marbles and 12 are green marbles, find the probability of a red marble.

                    P(red marble) =

please show all your work:)

anonymous · Answer

it it the ratio of the number of red marbles to the total number of marbles

anonymous · Answer

can't wait to see this...

swissgirl · Answer

$$ \frac {\text {red marbles}}{\text{ Total number of Marbles}}$$

thesmartone · Answer

$\Huge \frac{\color{red}{red}~marbles}{total~marbles}$

thesmartone · Answer

lol @swissgirl beat me to it...

dmndlife24 · Answer

8 / 20  which reduces to 2/5

swissgirl · Answer

lol @TheSmartOne I wasnt as colorful as u :P

anonymous · Answer

eeehhhh....

dmndlife24 · Answer

Latex freaks...lol

anonymous · Answer

0.o

thesmartone · Answer

:D

anonymous · Answer

nice profile pic @TheSmartOne  ;p