Yahoo Answers is shutting down on May 4th, 2021 (Eastern Time) and beginning April 20th, 2021 (Eastern Time) the Yahoo Answers website will be in read-only mode. There will be no changes to other Yahoo properties or services, or your Yahoo account. You can find more information about the Yahoo Answers shutdown and how to download your data on this help page.

if you have an INFINITE number of red marbles, what is the probability that one of them is NOT red?

my husband is trying to be right,... i want to know what everyone else thinks

8 Answers

Relevance
  • 1 decade ago
    Favorite Answer

    The above comment is correct there is no way to verify that they are all red all you can really know is that you have an inexhaustible supply of marbles and everyone that you have checked so far is red from which you inductively reason that they are all red. This is a theory not a certainty and the first blue marble would disprove it.

  • arslan
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago

    If you have an infinite number of red marbles, then the probability of NOT picking a red marble is 0%

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    To play the Devil's advocate, if you have an infinite number of marbles, how can you ever be sure that all of them are red?

  • ?
    Lv 5
    1 decade ago

    the probability that one of the RED marbles is not RED? should be 0%! (unless someone paints it or something)

  • How do you think about the answers? You can sign in to vote the answer.
  • 1 decade ago

    there is no chance of any of the red marbles not being red, theoretically.

  • Bryan
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago

    0. You said they were red, that implies all of them.

  • 1 decade ago

    o%

  • 1 decade ago

    one could have some dirt on it so idk

Still have questions? Get your answers by asking now.