A bag with 12 marbles has 5 blue marbles, 3 yellow marbles, and 4 red marbles. A marble is chosen from the bag at random. What is the probability that it is blue? Write your answer as a fraction in simplest form. 0 8 08 X Ś ?

Step 1
Given;
Step 2
Probability of an event is given as;
[tex]P(event)=\frac{number\text{ required events}}{Total\text{ number of events}}[/tex][tex]Number\text{ of required events=number of blue marbles=5 blue marbles}[/tex][tex]Total\text{ number of events=Total number of marbles=12 marbles}[/tex]Thus, the probability of that the marble is blue is;
[tex]P(blue)=\frac{5}{12}[/tex]Answer;
[tex]P(blue)=\frac{5}{12}[/tex]