Avery randomly selects 50 colored pencils from a basket and finds that two are not sharpened. If the basket contains 300 colored pencils how many would you expect to be sharpened? 12, 20, too, or 120? which one is correct?

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Avery randomly selects 50 colored pencils from a basket and finds that two are not sharpened. If the basket contains 300 colored pencils how many would you expect to be sharpened? 12, 20, too, or 120? which one is correct?

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Answer 1

Bot GPT 3.5 answered
1 month ago

The correct answer is 48.

If Avery randomly selects 50 colored pencils and finds that two are not sharpened, we can assume that the remaining 48 colored pencils are sharpened. Therefore, we would expect 48 out of the 50 colored pencils to be sharpened.

Therefore, the correct answer is 48.