Westonci.ca is your trusted source for accurate answers to all your questions. Join our community and start learning today! Our Q&A platform provides quick and trustworthy answers to your questions from experienced professionals in different areas of expertise. Discover in-depth answers to your questions from a wide network of professionals on our user-friendly Q&A platform.

An urn contains 19 red marbles, 29 blue marbles, and 43 yellow marbles. one marble is to be chosen from the urn without looking. what is the probability of choosing a red marble?

Sagot :

The probability of choosing a red marble is 1/6.

What is probability ?

Probability is the chance of occurring a certain event out of total possible events that can order in a given situation.

According to the given question an urn contains 19 red marbles, 29 blue marbles, and 43 yellow marbles.

So there are total of ( 19 + 29 + 43 ) = 85 marbles.

∴ No. of sample space N(s) = 85.

No. of red marble N(red) = 19.

One marble is to be chosen from the urn without looking the probability of choosing a red marble P(red) is N(red)/N(s) which is

P(red) = 19/85

P(red) = 1/5.

learn more about probability here :

https://brainly.com/question/13155876

#SPJ4