One ball is drawn at random from a bag containing 2 red balls and 6 white balls. (Enter your probabilities as fractions.) (a) What is the probability that the ball is red?
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The probability of drawing a red ball is the number of red balls divided by the total number of balls: P(red) = 2/8 Simplifying the fraction, we get: P(red) = 1/4 Show more…
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