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Question 614422: A bag has 10 blue marbles and 8 yellow marbles. Half of the yellow marbles are made of plastic. A marble is selected at random from the bag. What is the probability that it is a yellow, plastic marble?
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Bag of  18 marbles: 10 blue, 4 yellow plastic, 4 yellow(not plastic)

A marble is selected at random from the bag

 P(Yellow plastic) = 4%2F18+=+2%2F9