A bag contains 20 marbles: 4 red, 6 green, 5

Siena Duran

Siena Duran

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2022-02-13

A bag contains 20 marbles: 4 red, 6 green, 5 white and 5 black. One marble is drawn. What is P (not picking a white)?

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Jack Hobbs

Jack Hobbs

Beginner2022-02-14Added 14 answers

Step 1
From our selection of 20 marbles, 15 aren't white (205=15). And so the probability of picking a non-white marble is:
1520=34
We can also do this in a different way, by saying from the 2020, which is the odds of picking a marble of any colour from a sack of marbles and subtracting from that the odds of picking a white marble (520):
2020520=1520=34

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