A bag of tokens contains 8 red, 7 green, and 9 purple tokens. What is the probability that a randomly selected token is purple? Enter your answer as a fraction.

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Solution:

Given;

[tex]n(r)=8,n(g)=7,n(p)=9,n(T)=24[/tex]

The probability that a randomly selected token is purple is;

[tex]\begin{gathered} P(purple)=\frac{n(p)}{n(T)} \\ \\ P(purple)=\frac{9}{24} \\ \\ P(purple)=\frac{3}{8} \end{gathered}[/tex]