A jar contains 5 blue marbles 8 red marbles 4 white marbles and 3 purple marbles suppose you pick a marble at random without looking find P(red) write answer as fraction in simplest form

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There are a total of 5 + 8 + 4 + 3 = 20 marbles in the jar.

The probability of picking a red marble is the number of red marbles divided by the total number of marbles:

P(red) = 8 / 20 = 4 / 10 = 2 / 5

Therefore, the probability of picking a red marble is 2/5.