SOLUTION: A marble is drawn at random from a bag containing 2 blue marbles, 3 yellow marbles, and 7 orange marbles. What is the probability that the marble drawn is not yellow?
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Question 1155654: A marble is drawn at random from a bag containing 2 blue marbles, 3 yellow marbles, and 7 orange marbles. What is the probability that the marble drawn is not yellow? Answer by ikleyn(52800) (Show Source):
The total number of marbles is 2 + 3 + 7 = 12.
Of them, 12 - 3 = 9 are NOT yellow marbles.
Hence, the probability which the problem asks about is = = 0.75 = 75%. ANSWER
