SOLUTION: A marble is drawn at random from a bag containing 2 blue marbles, 3 yellow marbles, and 7 orange marbles. What is the probability that the marble drawn is not yellow?

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Question 1155654: A marble is drawn at random from a bag containing 2 blue marbles, 3 yellow marbles, and 7 orange marbles. What is the probability that the marble drawn is not yellow?
Answer by ikleyn(52803)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
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The total number of marbles is 2 + 3 + 7 = 12.


Of them, 12 - 3 = 9 are NOT yellow marbles.


Hence, the probability which the problem asks about is   =  = 0.75 = 75%.    ANSWER

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