SOLUTION: A box is filled with 4 brown cards, 4 yellow cards, and 6 blue cards. A card is chosen at random from the box. What is the probability that it is a brown or a blue card? Would the

SOLUTION: A box is filled with 4 brown cards, 4 yellow cards, and 6 blue cards. A card is chosen at random from the box. What is the probability that it is a brown or a blue card? Would the

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Question 552659: A box is filled with 4 brown cards, 4 yellow cards, and 6 blue cards. A card is chosen at random from the box. What is the probability that it is a brown or a blue card? Would the answer be 5/7?
Answer by jim_thompson5910(35256) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
P(Brown or Blue) = P(Brown) + P(Blue)

P(Brown or Blue) = 4/14 + 6/14

P(Brown or Blue) = 10/14

P(Brown or Blue) = 5/7

So you have the correct answer. Congrats.
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