Question

Jonathan has a bag that has 2 red marbles and 3 blue marbles inside of it if you were to pick one marble from the bag without looking what is the probability of picking a red marble

Answer 1

There are 2 red marbles and 3 blue marbles, with a total of 5 marbles in the bag.

When Jonathan chooses a marble, we are saying that he is choosing the marble randomly.

Let's make a fraction. We want to know the chance of picking one of the 2 red marbles among all 5 marbles.

Divide 2 by 5

2/5

That's already a simplified fraction. If you want to convert this into decimal and into percentage, you would get

2/5
= 0.4
= 40%

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