Question

A box contains 2 purple marbles, 2 blue marbles, 3 green marbles, and 5 red marbles.

2 purple marbles, 2 blue marbles, 3 green marbles, and 5 red marbles.

Which color marble is most likely to be picked?
purple
blue
green
red

Answer 1

Red — it has 5 of the 12 marbles, so P(red) = 5/12, which is larger than P(green) = 3/12 and P(purple) = P(blue) = 2/12.