Use the following scenario to answer the question:
A bag contains 5 green marbles, 4 red marbles, 7 blue marbles, and 9 yellow marbles.

What are the odds of drawing a yellow marble?
a. 1/4
b. 16/25
c. 9/25
d. 9/16

Question

Use the following scenario to answer the question:
A bag contains 5 green marbles, 4 red marbles, 7 blue marbles, and 9 yellow marbles.

What are the odds of drawing a yellow marble?
a. 1/4 
b. 16/25 
c. 9/25 
d. 9/16

sloppycanada · Answer

Ooooo Probability. Okay - how many marbles are there?

anonymous · Answer

I would go with C. sense there are 25 marbles it can't be A. or D. And it would make sense to go with C. because there are 9 yellow marbles.

anonymous · Answer

thankyou !

anonymous · Answer

No problem!

sloppycanada · Answer

It's D! Odds is different than probability

anonymous · Answer

oh ok thankyou !

sloppycanada · Answer

Odds = Odds of an event = number of ways the event can occur : number of ways it can't occur 

In other words - successes : failures

anonymous · Answer

Oh I see my mistake. Thank you for fixing that :)

sloppycanada · Answer

No problem, @gaby565 It's a confusing thing odds vs probability.

You'd hope they'd be the same.