{"id":21189,"date":"2026-05-25T22:26:58","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T16:26:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/mcq\/solve-a-probability-question-3\/"},"modified":"2026-05-25T22:26:58","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T16:26:58","slug":"solve-a-probability-question-3","status":"publish","type":"mcq","link":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/mcq\/solve-a-probability-question-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Solve a probability question"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A bag has 5 red, 8 blue, and 4 green marbles. What is the probability of choosing a red marble?<\/p>\n<ul class=\"quiz-options\">\n<li>17\/5<\/li>\n<li>4\/17<\/li>\n<li>8\/17<\/li>\n<li>5\/17<\/li>\n<li>5\/13<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","topic":[2894,2893],"subject":[2750],"education_level":[1894],"class_list":["post-21189","mcq","type-mcq","status-publish","hentry","topic-advanced-counting","topic-probability","subject-advanced-mathematics","education_level-grade-8"],"mcq_note":"Probability = favorable outcomes \u00f7 total outcomes. Red marbles are 5, and total marbles are 17, so the probability is 5\/17. Probability compares favorable outcomes with total equally likely outcomes. First count the desired outcomes, then divide by the total number of possible outcomes. The correct answer is 5\/17, which matches the calculation or reasoning shown.","mcq_options":[{"right":"no","answer":"17\/5"},{"right":"no","answer":"4\/17"},{"right":"no","answer":"8\/17"},{"right":"yes","answer":"5\/17"},{"right":"no","answer":"5\/13"}],"multi_answers":"no","subject_terms":[{"id":2750,"title":"Advanced Mathematics","slug":"advanced-mathematics"}],"topic_terms":[{"id":2894,"title":"Advanced Counting","slug":"advanced-counting"},{"id":2893,"title":"Probability","slug":"probability"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/mcq\/21189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/mcq"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/mcq"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=21189"},{"taxonomy":"subject","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/subject?post=21189"},{"taxonomy":"education_level","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/education_level?post=21189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}