Question

Avery randomly selects 50 colored pencils from a basket and finds that 2 are not sharpened. If the basket contains 300 colored pencils, how many would you expect to be unsharpened?(1 point) Responses 120 120 2 2 20 20 12

Answer 1

[AI-generated answer — Bot GPT 3.5]

You would expect 12 colored pencils to be unsharpened.

This can be calculated by finding the proportion of unsharpened colored pencils in the 50 randomly selected colored pencils, and then applying that proportion to the total number of colored pencils in the basket.

Proportion of unsharpened colored pencils in the randomly selected sample:
2 unsharpened out of 50 total = 2/50 = 1/25

Expected number of unsharpened colored pencils in the basket:
(1/25) * 300 = 12

Therefore, you would expect 12 colored pencils to be unsharpened in the basket.