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A box contains 5 red marbles, 8 white marbles and 4 green marbles. One marble is taken out of the box at random .
What is the probability that the marble taken out will be (i) red ? (ii) white ? (iii) not green ?

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`(i) (5)/(17), (ii) (8)/(17) , (iii) (13)/(17)`
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