A bag contains 5 blue balls, 4 red balls, and 3 orange balls. if a ball is picked from the bag at random, what is the probability that it is a blue ball? answers have been rounded to the tenths place.

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Jamari Hickman

Mathematics

9 February, 18:33

A bag contains 5 blue balls, 4 red balls, and 3 orange balls. if a ball is picked from the bag at random, what is the probability that it is a blue ball? answers have been rounded to the tenths place.

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Tamia Randolph · Answer 1

5 / (5 + 4 + 3) = 41.6%

All the balls make 100% of the balls (12), 5 balls are blue, so you divide 5 blue balls, by 100% of the balls (12) to arrive at the percentage of probability of pulling a blue ball from the bag.