SOLUTION: A ball is drawn randomly from a jar that contains 4 red balls, 3 white balls, and 2 yellow balls. Find the probability of the given event. Write your answers as reduced fractions o
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Question 1195650: A ball is drawn randomly from a jar that contains 4 red balls, 3 white balls, and 2 yellow balls. Find the probability of the given event. Write your answers as reduced fractions or whole numbers.
(a)
P
(A red ball is drawn) =
(b)
P
(A white ball is drawn) =
(c)
P
(A yellow ball is drawn) =
(d)
P
(A green ball is drawn) =
Answer by ikleyn(52756) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
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In this problem, the construction of the answer is the same for all question.
The probability under the question is the ratio, whose denominator is the total number of the balls in the jar,
while the numerator is the number of balls of the given color.
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