A bag of colored marbles contains 16 blue marbles, 12 red marbles, and 8 yellow marbles.

What is the theoretical probability of drawing a red marble?

Enter your answer as a reduced fraction, like this: 3/14

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Asher Baird

12 April, 22:10

A bag of colored marbles contains 16 blue marbles, 12 red marbles, and 8 yellow marbles.

What is the theoretical probability of drawing a red marble?

Enter your answer as a reduced fraction, like this: 3/14

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Armando Powers · Answer 1

The theoretical probability of drawing a red marble is 1/3.

Step-by-step explanation:

1. Add all of the marbles together to get total marbles. 16 + 12 + 8 = 36.

2. Create a fraction, with numerator being favorable outcomes and denominator being total possible outcomes. In this case it would be 12/36.

3. Since it is asking for a reduced fraction, simplify 12/36 to 1/3.

A bag of colored marbles contains 16 blue marbles, 12 red marbles, and 8 yellow marbles.What is the theoretical probability of drawing a red marble?Enter your answer as a reduced fraction, like this: 3/14

A bag of colored marbles contains 16 blue marbles, 12 red marbles, and 8 yellow marbles.

What is the theoretical probability of drawing a red marble?

Enter your answer as a reduced fraction, like this: 3/14