Homework Help: math

Posted by unknown on Friday, February 24, 2012 at 7:11pm.

A box holds 2 blue marbles and 6 red marbles. How many and what color marbles could you remove from the bag to make the probability of picking red 1/2?

math - bobpursley, Friday, February 24, 2012 at 7:12pm
I would remove 4 red marbles. That leaves 2 blue, 2 red.

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