A box contains marbles of five different colors: red, green, blue, yellow, and purple. there is an equal number of each color. assign probabilities to each color in the sample space. (give your answers as fractions.)

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Charlotte Ayala

8 March, 10:54

A box contains marbles of five different colors: red, green, blue, yellow, and purple. there is an equal number of each color. assign probabilities to each color in the sample space. (give your answers as fractions.)

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Eliezer Weiss · Answer 1

P (red) = 1/5 [that says "probability of getting red is one fifth"

P (green) = 1/5

P (blue) = 1/5

P (yellow) = 1/5

P (purple) = 1/5

The reason the fractions are all the same is that there are equal numbers of each color. For example, if there were 7 marbles of each color, there would be a total of 35 marbles.

P (red) = 7/35 = 1/5

Similar for the other colors.