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Sheet # 248 Critical Thinking

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Jerrod has a bag with 14 green marbles, 8 white marbles, 4 red marbles, and 4 black marbles. If he wants the probability of picking a green marble to be 1/2, what should Jerrod do? You can add more marbles to the bag but marbles cannot be taken out from the bag.













































Answer for sheet # 248

Total number of marbles = 30

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robability of picking up a green is 14/30.

If you add 2 more green marbles, the probability of picking up a green is 16/32. Total number of marbles is now 32. 16/32 is equal to 1/2.