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A bag holds 8 yellow marbles and 5 orange marbles. How many and what color marbles would you add to the bag so that the probabi...Asked by kyara Vargas
A bag holds 8 yellow marbles and 5 orange marbles.How many and what color marbles would you add to the bag so that the probability of picking a yellow marble is 2/3
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Since there are 5 orange, and that makes up 1/3 of the total bag, you would multiply that by 3 to get the total amount. 2/3 of that is 10 marbles. Since there are currently 8, you subtract 8 from 10, giving you 2 marbles
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