SOLUTION: if jane has 100 marbles. 25 white marbles and 35 red ones and the rest blue. is she randomly picks picks a marble from the bag, what is the probability that the marbles wont be red

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Question 415661: if jane has 100 marbles. 25 white marbles and 35 red ones and the rest blue. is she randomly picks picks a marble from the bag, what is the probability that the marbles wont be red or white? Plzzzzzzzzzzzzz help me ive been up all night tryin to figure this problem out
Answer by stanbon(75887)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
if jane has 100 marbles. 25 white marbles and 35 red ones and the rest blue.
If she randomly picks a marble from the bag, what is the probability that the marbles wont be red or white?
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If it is not red or blue it must be white.
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P(not red or blue) = P(white) = 25/100 = 1/4
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Cheers,
Stan H.
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