SOLUTION: An urn contains 40 balls. Some are red balls and the rest are white balls. If the probability of extracting a white ball is 0.75, how many white balls are there?

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Question 1126496: An urn contains 40 balls. Some are red balls and the rest are white balls.
If the probability of extracting a white ball is 0.75, how many white balls are there?
Answer by Shin123(626) About Me  (Show Source):
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If the probability of picking a white ball is 0.75, that means that 0.75 of the 40 total are white.
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