Question

A bag contains 8 blue marbles, 6 green marbles, 12 yellow marbles, and 10 orange marbles. A marble is drawn at random from the bag.


What is the probability that the marble drawn will not be blue?
A. 2/9
B. 3/4
C.7/9
D.7/8

Answer 1

i think it may be D???

Answer 2

what is total number of marbles ??

Answer 3

36

Answer 4

\(\huge\color{blue}{{\rm 8}}\)+\(\huge\color{green}{{\rm 6}}\)+\(\huge\color{yellow}{{\rm 12}}\)+\(\huge\color{orange}{{\rm 10}}\) = 36 yep right

Answer 5

now skip blue one and count green and orange and yellow number together

Answer 6

36 - 8 =??
bece they ask probability that the marble not be blue ?

Answer 7

28

Answer 8

\[\huge\rm \frac{ 28 }{ 36 } = ??\]

Answer 9

0.7777777777777778
I have already done all of this... Then after this you then turn it into a fraction. Which would be 78/100 (if you round up)

Answer 10

@Nnesha

Answer 11

reduce fraction

Answer 12

into what?

Answer 13

7/8 is it D??

Answer 14

divide both top and bottom part by 2
until there is no way to divide

Answer 15

7/9

Answer 16

yep right

Answer 17

oh! ok... thanks

Answer 18

np

Answer 19

can you help me with my other question?