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Probability of picking a particular colour ball from a bag
A bag contains balls of three different colours. You're told how many there are of each, and asked the probability of picking a ball of a particular colour.
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Created this as a copy of Basic Probability Questions.There are 24 other versions that do you not have access to.
| Name | Type | Generated Value |
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| red | integer |
19
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| blue | integer |
6
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| green | integer |
10
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| total | integer |
35
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A bag contains {red} red balls, {blue} blue balls and {green} green balls. One ball is removed from the bag at random. What is the probability that the chosen ball will be blue? Remember to reduce any fractions into their simplest form.
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