The numbers 1 through 50 are written with red marker on slips of paper while the numbers 51 through 100 are written with blue marker on slips of paper. All the papers are put into a bag and shuffled. One card is randomly selected.

Find the probability of selecting a number less than 12 or a number written in blue. Show your work.

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Mathematics

Liana Gilmore

29 June, 19:23

The numbers 1 through 50 are written with red marker on slips of paper while the numbers 51 through 100 are written with blue marker on slips of paper. All the papers are put into a bag and shuffled. One card is randomly selected.

Find the probability of selecting a number less than 12 or a number written in blue. Show your work.

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Antoine Rollins · Answer 1

The correct answer for the question that is being presented above is this one:

We want to pull 11 (this means not including 12) or less from the bag and there are 100 possibilities

= 11/100

So the probability is 11/100