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Red ball... Red ball (Posted on 2002-10-17)

If you take two balls randomly out of a jar of colored balls, there is a 50% chance that the balls will both be red.

What is the total percentage of red balls in the jar?

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There are four balls in the jar- three of which are red and the remaining one is not red.

Therefire, the total percentage of red balls in the jar is 75.

Posted by K Sengupta on 2023-12-22 19:47:11

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