The probability of one outcome

Difficulty Starter · Set 92biix

Give each probability as a fraction in its lowest terms.

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1
A bag holds 4 green counters and 4 black ones. One is taken without looking. What is the probability that it is green?
2
A bag holds 1 red counter and 4 blue ones. One is taken without looking. What is the probability that it is red?
3
A bag holds 5 yellow counters and 1 blue one. One is taken without looking. What is the probability that it is yellow?
4
A bag holds 1 blue counter and 2 green ones. One is taken without looking. What is the probability that it is blue?
5
A bag holds 1 yellow counter and 4 black ones. One is taken without looking. What is the probability that it is yellow?
6
A bag holds 2 green counters and 1 black one. One is taken without looking. What is the probability that it is green?
7
A bag holds 5 red counters and 1 yellow one. One is taken without looking. What is the probability that it is red?
8
A bag holds 1 blue counter and 3 black ones. One is taken without looking. What is the probability that it is blue?
9
A bag holds 4 black counters and 3 red ones. One is taken without looking. What is the probability that it is black?
10
A bag holds 4 green counters and 3 black ones. One is taken without looking. What is the probability that it is green?
11
A bag holds 4 yellow counters and 5 blue ones. One is taken without looking. What is the probability that it is yellow?
12
A bag holds 4 green counters and 3 black ones. One is taken without looking. What is the probability that it is green?
13
A bag holds 5 black counters and 1 yellow one. One is taken without looking. What is the probability that it is black?
14
A bag holds 1 red counter and 4 yellow ones. One is taken without looking. What is the probability that it is red?
15
A bag holds 5 blue counters and 1 black one. One is taken without looking. What is the probability that it is blue?
16
A bag holds 5 green counters and 3 blue ones. One is taken without looking. What is the probability that it is green?
17
A bag holds 5 blue counters and 4 green ones. One is taken without looking. What is the probability that it is blue?
18
A bag holds 2 red counters and 1 black one. One is taken without looking. What is the probability that it is red?
19
A bag holds 2 black counters and 5 yellow ones. One is taken without looking. What is the probability that it is black?
20
A bag holds 5 red counters and 2 blue ones. One is taken without looking. What is the probability that it is red?

What is in this set

The numbers in this set run from 1 to 5.
A careful solution takes 2 written steps on average.
The mistake this set invites most often, in 100% of the problems: 4 is the rest of the bag, not the whole of it.
Answers are a fraction in its lowest terms, written like 3/4.

Drawing 240 problems from this page produced 194 different ones, 81% — so a sheet of 20 is a new sheet almost every time.

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