A bag contains 2 gold marbles, 7 silver marbles, and 23 black marbles. Someone offers to play this game: You randomly select one marble from the bag. If it is gold, you win $4. If it is silver, you win $3. If it is black, you lose $1. What is your expected value if you play this game?

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A bag contains 2 gold marbles, 7 silver marbles, and 23 black marbles. Someone offers to play this game: You randomly select one marble from the bag. If it is gold, you win $4. If it is silver, you win $3. If it is black, you lose $1.

What is your expected value if you play this game?

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We have given that a bag contains 2 gold marbles, 7 silver marbles, and 23 black marbles.

We have to select one marble from the bag.

If it's gold you win $4

If it's silver you win $3

If it's black you lose $1

We have to find the expected value.

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