{"id":21199,"date":"2026-05-25T22:26:59","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T16:26:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/mcq\/solve-a-probability-question-5\/"},"modified":"2026-05-25T22:26:59","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T16:26:59","slug":"solve-a-probability-question-5","status":"publish","type":"mcq","link":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/mcq\/solve-a-probability-question-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Solve a probability question"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A bag has 6 red, 3 blue, and 2 green marbles. What is the probability of choosing a red marble?<\/p>\n<ul class=\"quiz-options\">\n<li>11\/6<\/li>\n<li>3\/11<\/li>\n<li>6\/11<\/li>\n<li>6\/9<\/li>\n<li>2\/11<\/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-21199","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 6, and total marbles are 11, so the probability is 6\/11. 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 6\/11, which matches the calculation or reasoning shown.","mcq_options":[{"right":"no","answer":"11\/6"},{"right":"no","answer":"3\/11"},{"right":"yes","answer":"6\/11"},{"right":"no","answer":"6\/9"},{"right":"no","answer":"2\/11"}],"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\/21199","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=21199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=21199"},{"taxonomy":"subject","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/subject?post=21199"},{"taxonomy":"education_level","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/education_level?post=21199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}