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A bag contains some yellow marbles, red marbles and green marbles. The probability of drawing a green marble from the box is $$\frac{1}{5}$$. There are twice as many yellow marbles as green marble. The number of red marbles in the box are 10.

Question 47

What is the total number of marbles in the box?

Probability of drawing a green marble from the box is $$\frac{1}{5}$$
We know that the number of yellow marbles are twice as many as green marbles. Hence the probability of yellow marbles would be $$\frac{2}{5}$$
Since there are only 3 types of marbles in the box, so the probability of red marbles would be $$ 1 - \frac{1}{5} - \frac{2}{5} = \frac{2}{5}$$
Let the total number of marbles be k, then we have
$$\frac{10}{k} = \frac{2}{5}$$
=> k = 25

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