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(48522) About Me  (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.