SOLUTION: A bag has A bag has 14 red marbles and 4 brown marbles. Half of the brown marbles are made of plastic. A marble is selected at random from the bag. What is the probability th

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A bag has 14 red marbles and 4 brown marbles. Half of the brown marbles are made of plastic. A marble is selected at random from the bag. What is the probability that it is a brown, plastic marble?
Write your answer as a fraction in simplest form.

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EXPLANATION:
The half of the 4 brown marbles that are made of plastic is
brown, plastic marbles.
If there are only 14 red marbles and 4 brown marbles in the bag,
the bag contains a total of
marbles.
As a fraction of all the marbles in the bag,
the brown, plastic marbles are out of .
That is
,
and that is the probability that
a marble randomly selected from the bag is a brown, plastic marble.

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