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11-40.

Marissa is drawing erasers from a bag containing pink erasers, yellow erasers, green erasers, and purple erasers.

  1. What is the probability that she will draw a pink eraser?

  2. If one yellow, two green, and one purple eraser are added to the bag, what is the new probability that she will draw a pink eraser?

    What is the new total number of erasers?
    Does the number of pink erasers change?

  3. In which situation is it more likely that she will draw a pink eraser?

    Compare the probabilities in each situation.
    Which probability is higher?

    It is more likely for Marissa to draw a pink eraser in the first situation
    because