SOLUTION: A bag contains 4 white, 6 green, and 8 yellow chips. What is the probability that a randomly selected chip will be white or yellow?
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Question 386324: A bag contains 4 white, 6 green, and 8 yellow chips. What is the probability that a randomly selected chip will be white or yellow?
Answer by chiggypiggy(2) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
First you add the amount of white and yellow chips
4+8=12
then you add all the amount of chips from each color
4+6+8=18
so the probability will be 12/18 this answer can be reduced to 2/3.
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