A bag contains a total of 60 marbles. A marble is to be chosen at random from the bag. If the probability that a blue marble will be chosen is 0.35, how many marbles in the bag are blue?
Correct answer: A (parsed from the explanation — this source omits an answer key for this item)
Explanation
Choice A is correct. Multiplying the number of marbles in the bag by the probability of selecting a blue marble gives the number of blue marbles in the bag. Since the bag contains a total of 60 marbles and the probability that a blue marble will be selected from the bag is 0.35, there are a total of blue marbles in the bag.
Choice B is incorrect and may result from subtracting 35 from 60. Choice C is incorrect. This would be the number of blue marbles in the bag if there were a total of 100 marbles, not 60 marbles. Choice D is incorrect. This is the number of marbles in the bag that aren’t blue.
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