document.write( "Question 79977: Preface: You are going to draw a random marble from a bag containing 5 red marbles, 8 green marbles and two blue marbles.\r
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document.write( "You are going to draw a random marble from a bag containing 5 red marbles, 8\r\n" );
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document.write( "Question: What is the probability that you draw a red marble?\r\n" );
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document.write( "There are 5 ways you could succeed (by drawing one the 5 red marbles)\r\n" );
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document.write( "There are 10 ways you could fail (by drawing one of the 8 green marbles or\r\n" );
document.write( "either one of the 2 blue marble).\r\n" );
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document.write( "                         Number of ways to succeed\r\n" );
document.write( "Probability = ---------------------------------------------------- \r\n" );
document.write( "               Number of ways to succeed + number of ways to fail\r\n" );
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document.write( "         5        5     1\r\n" );
document.write( "   = -------- = ---- = ---\r\n" );
document.write( "      5 + 10     15     3\r\n" );
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document.write( "What are the odds that you draw a blue marble?\r\n" );
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document.write( "There are 2 ways you could succeed (by drawing either one the 2 blue marbles)\r\n" );
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document.write( "There are 13 ways you could fail (by drawing one of the 5 red marbles or one\r\n" );
document.write( "of the 8 green marble).\r\n" );
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document.write( "Odds in Favor = (Number of ways to succeed) TO (Number of ways to fail\r\n" );
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document.write( "              = 2 TO 13\r\n" );
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document.write( "(If you had been asked for the odds against, the answer would have been\r\n" );
document.write( "13 to 2)\r\n" );
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