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There is a bag with only red marbles and blue marbles.
The probability of randomly choosing a blue marble is
3/8
There are 56 marbles in total in the bag and each is equally likely to be chosen.
Work out how many red marbles there must be.

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Answer:

red marbles

Step-by-step explanation:

Since the formula is;

Probability = number of required outcome

_______________________

number of possible outcome

3/8. = x/56

8x. = 168

x. 21 ( number of blue marbles)

Therefore if the total marbles = 56 and 21 of the marbles are blue then to get the red marbles

= 56 - 21

= 35

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