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There is a bag with only red marbles and blue marbles.
The probability of randomly choosing a red marble is
7/12
There are 84 marbles in total in the bag and each is equally likely to be chosen.
Work out how many red marbles there must be.

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Answer:

49

Step-by-step explanation:

The probability of choosing a red marble is equal to the number of red marbles over the number of total marbles there are.

Therefore, let the number of red marbles be [tex]x[/tex].

We have the following equation:

[tex]\frac{x}{84}=\frac{7}{12}[/tex]

Cross-multiplying, we get:

[tex]12x=7\cdot 84,\\x=\frac{84\cdot 7}{12},\\x=\boxed{49}[/tex]

Therefore, there are 49 red marbles in the bag.

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