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A jar contains 12 red marbles numbered 1 to 12 and 4 blue marbles numbered 1 to 4. A marble is drawn at random from the jar. Find the probability of the given event. (a) The marble is red Your answer is : (b) The marble is odd-numbered Your answer is : (c) The marble is red or odd-numbered Your answer is : (d) The marble is blue and even-numbered Your answer is : Suppose a jar contains 9 red marbles and 38 blue marbles. If you reach in the jar and pull out 2 marbles at random at the same time, find the probability that both are red.

          A jar contains 12 red marbles numbered 1 to 12 and 4 blue marbles numbered 1 to 4. A marble is drawn at random from the jar. Find the probability of the given event.
(a) The marble is red
Your answer is :
(b) The marble is odd-numbered
Your answer is :
(c) The marble is red or odd-numbered
Your answer is :
(d) The marble is blue and even-numbered
Your answer is :
Suppose a jar contains 9 red marbles and 38 blue marbles. If you reach in the jar and pull out 2 marbles at random at the same time, find the probability that both are red.

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A jar contains 12 red marbles numbered 1 to 12 and 4 blue marbles numbered 1 to 4. A marble is drawn at random from the jar. Find the probability of the given event.
(a) The marble is red
Your answer is :
(b) The marble is odd-numbered
Your answer is :
(c) The marble is red or odd-numbered
Your answer is :
(d) The marble is blue and even-numbered
Your answer is :
Suppose a jar contains 9 red marbles and 38 blue marbles. If you reach in the jar and pull out 2 marbles at random at the same time, find the probability that both are red.

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The probability of drawing a red marble is the ratio of red marbles to the total number of marbles, which is $\frac{12}{16}$. $\boxed{\frac{12}{16}}$ (b) The probability of drawing an odd-numbered marble: There are 6 odd-numbered red marbles (1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 11) Show more…

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A jar contains 12 red marbles numbered 1 to 12 and 4 blue marbles numbered 1 to 4. A marble is drawn at random from the jar. Find the probability of the given event. (a) The marble is red Your answer is : (b) The marble is odd-numbered Your answer is : (c) The marble is red or odd-numbered Your answer is : (d) The marble is blue and even-numbered Your answer is : Suppose a jar contains 9 red marbles and 38 blue marbles. If you reach in the jar and pull out 2 marbles at random at the same time, find the probability that both are red.

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