SOLUTION: A bag contains only red marbles, blue marbles, and yellow marbles. The probability of randomly selecting a red marble from this bag is 1/4, and the probability of randomly selectin
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Question 93652: A bag contains only red marbles, blue marbles, and yellow marbles. The probability of randomly selecting a red marble from this bag is 1/4, and the probability of randomly selecting a blue marble is 1/6. Which of the following could be the total number of marbles in the bag?
(A) 10
(B) 12
(C) 18
(D) 20
(E) 30
Answer by stanbon(75887) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
The least common multipl of 4 and 6 is 12
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Cheers,
Stan H.
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