The discard pile for a children’s card game contains 6 green cards, 8 yellow cards, 10 blue cards, and several red cards. There are no other cards in the discard pile. The probability of randomly choosing a yellow card from the pile is . Armando shuffles the discard pile and places the whole pile face down in front of the players to ready it for further play.How many red cards are in the discard pile when Armando places it in front of the players?

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The discard pile for a children’s card game contains 6 green cards, 8 yellow cards, 10 blue cards, and several red cards. There are no other cards in the discard pile. The probability of randomly choosing a yellow card from the pile is <img alt='images' class='middle1' src='https://www.fatskills.com/images2/ACT/eq02630.png'/><!--<m:math display='inline' overflow='scroll' xmlns:m='http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML'><m:mrow><m:mfrac><m:mn>1</m:mn><m:mn>4</m:mn></m:mfrac></m:mrow></m:math>-->. Armando shuffles the discard pile and places the whole pile face down in front of the players to ready it for further play.<br>How many red cards are in the discard pile when Armando places it in front of the players?






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