SOLUTION: a box of colored thumb tacks contains 80 tacks, with an equal assortment of red, green, blue, and yellow tacks. if you close your eyes and select a single thumb tack , what is the
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Question 385380: a box of colored thumb tacks contains 80 tacks, with an equal assortment of red, green, blue, and yellow tacks. if you close your eyes and select a single thumb tack , what is the probability that it will not be red?
Answer by stanbon(75887) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
a box of colored thumb tacks contains 80 tacks, with an equal assortment of red, green, blue, and yellow tacks. if you close your eyes and select a single thumb tack , what is the probability that it will not be red?
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There are 20 tacks of each color.
P(not red) = 60/80 = 3/4
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Cheers,
Stan H.
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