Answer to Question #194628 in Statistics and Probability for Sarah Akers

Question

A bad contains marbles of four different colors:

• 8 blue marbles
• 24 red marbles
• 17 green marbles
• 4 yellow marbles

the probability of picking a blue marble at random out of the bag is

Answer 1

The probability of picking a blue marble at random out of the bag is $= \dfrac{8}{8+24+17+4} = \dfrac{8}{53}$