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You are given a bag with 6 green marbles, 4 blue marbles, 12 yellow marbles, and 10 red marbles. Find the theoretical probability of each random event. (Enter your probabilities as fractions.)

 

I thought (a) could be 62 but I could be wrong

 

(a) Drawing a green marble 
 =_________

(b) Drawing a red marble 
 =____________


(c) Drawing a marble that is not yellow 

=a_____________

 Sep 30, 2018
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any probability is between 0 and 1 so 62 is a non-starter

 

there are 32 total marbles in the bag

 

a) P[drawing a green marble]=632=316

 

b) P[drawing a red marble]=1032=516

 

c) The easiest way to do this is find the probability of drawing a yellow marble and subtracting that from 1

 

P[drawing a !yellow marble]=1P[drawing a yellow marble]=11232=2032=58

 Sep 30, 2018
edited by Rom  Sep 30, 2018
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Does 62 look like a fraction?

 Sep 30, 2018
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62=621=1242=ZQso yes 62 is a "fraction", more accurately a rational numberit also happens to be a completely wrong answer in this context but that's another story

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 Sep 30, 2018
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Rom there might be something wrong with your display.

The question was “Does 62 look like a fraction?”

It wasn’t “Can you make 62 look like a fraction?”

 

I don’t know what the funny-looking Z, sideways U followed by a funny-looking Q means. Is that formula used to turn whole numbers into fractions? If I learn this, will whole numbers start looking like fractions to me?

Maybe the question asker knows that formula.

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ZQsimply says that the integers are a subset of the rationals

Rom  Oct 1, 2018

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