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?

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?

anonymous · Answer

add up all the marbles then put blue/all 
so it should be 8/??

anonymous · Answer

8+6+12+10=

anonymous · Answer

8/36? @HWBUSTER00

anonymous · Answer

yes .....

anonymous · Answer

do you need to simplify then it yould be 4/18........then 2/9

anonymous · Answer

So that's the probability that the marble drawn will NOT be blue?

anonymous · Answer

@HWBUSTER00

anonymous · Answer

yes it is less likely the chosen marble will be blue

anonymous · Answer

Sorry, you were wrong. @HWBUSTER00

anonymous · Answer

wait ......i dont understand how ??

anonymous · Answer

oh ...well sorry .....i truly did not mean it ..... i would have not answered if i knew i did not know ......i usually get thees type of questions right..??? i dont understand what i did wrong ??

anonymous · Answer

It's okay.