A bag contains 6 red marbles, 6 purple marbles, and 6 yellow marbles. What is the probability of randomly selecting a yellow marble from the bag?

Question

Responses
A1/12
B1/6
C1/3

D1/2

Answer 1

B. 1/6

There are a total of 6 yellow marbles out of 18 marbles in the bag. Therefore, the probability of randomly selecting a yellow marble is 6/18 which simplifies to 1/6.