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A box holds 2 blue marbles and 6 red marbles. How many and what color marbles could you remove from the bag to make the probability of picking red 1/2?
13 years ago

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bobpursley
I would remove 4 red marbles. That leaves 2 blue, 2 red.
13 years ago

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