SOLUTION: A bag has 8 green marbles and 8 blue marbles. Half of the blue marbles are made of plastic. A marble is selected at random from the bag. What is the probability that it is

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Question 1060275: A bag has
8
green marbles and
8
blue marbles. Half of the blue marbles are made of plastic. A marble is selected at random from the bag. What is the probability that it is a blue, plastic marble?
Answer by Edwin McCravy(20060)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
There are 4 blue, plastic marbles out of the 16.

Answer: 4 times out of 16 we'll draw one of those.

That's 4/16 or 1/4 of the time, so that's the probability, 1/4

Edwin
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