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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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Puzzle Answer

| Comment 16 of 17 |

Precisely 75 percent of the balls in the jar are red.

Edited on May 5, 2023, 10:44 pm

Posted by K Sengupta on 2022-09-03 22:15:56

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