Question

Eric is drawing marbles out of a bag. He determines the chances of selecting a black marble is neither likely or unlikely. Which combination could describe the marbles in the bag?

Question 1 options:

9 blue, 1 black


8 blue, 2 black


9 black, 1 blue


5 black, 5 blue

Answer 1

if their was more information about this maybe it would be easier

Answer 2

Think about it this way: if the probability of drawing a black marble were “likely” that means the probability is close to 1.

“Unlikely” means close to 0.

So neither unlikely nor likely would be somewhere around 50% or 0.5. Which answer choice gives you 50% for the probability of drawing black?