Probability Question
Colour | yellow | black | red |
Probability | 1/7 | ? | ? |
Daniel has a bag of marbles. he has twice as many black marbles as red marbles.
the rest are yellow.
he is going to take a marble at random from the bag.
yellow is 1/7
what is black and red probability?
\(\begin{array}{|rcll|} \hline b=2r \\ \hline \end{array}\)
\(\begin{array}{|lcrcll|} \hline \text{Probability yellow } = \frac17 & \Rightarrow & y+b+r &=& 7 & \text{ and } \quad y = 1 \\ & & y+b+r &=& 7 & \qquad b=2r \quad y = 1 \\ & & 1+2r+r &=& 7 \\ & & 3r &=& 6 \\ & & \mathbf{ r } & \mathbf{=} & \mathbf{2} \\ \text{Probability red:} & & \mathbf{ \frac{r}{y+b+r} } & \mathbf{=} & \mathbf{\frac27 } \\\\ & & y+b+r &=& 7 & \qquad r=2 \quad y = 1 \\ & & 1+b+2 &=& 7 & \\ & & b &=& 7-3 & \\ & & \mathbf{ b } & \mathbf{=} & \mathbf{4} \\ \text{Probability black:} & & \mathbf{ \frac{b}{y+b+r} } & \mathbf{=} & \mathbf{\frac47 } \\\\ \hline \end{array} \)
\(\begin{array}{|l|r|r|r|} \hline \text{Colour} & \text{yellow} & \text{black} & \text{red} \\ \hline \text{Probability} & \frac17 & \frac47 & \frac27 \\ \hline \end{array} \)