Rohan loves red M&M's. He bought a bag of 500 and wanted to predict how many reds there were. He closed his eyes and randomly chose 50 M&M's and then replaced them. Of those he pulled out, 8 were red. About how many red M&M's would you predict are in the bag? 50

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Rohan loves red M&M's. He bought a bag of 500 and wanted to predict how many reds there were. He closed his eyes and randomly chose 50 M&M's and then replaced them. Of those he pulled out, 8 were red. About how many red M&M's would you predict are in the bag? 50

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Bot GPT 3.5 answered
1 month ago

Based on Rohan's sample of 50 M&M's, where 8 were red, we can calculate the percentage of red M&M's in the sample: 8/50 = 0.16 or 16%.

If we assume that this percentage holds true for the entire bag of 500 M&M's, we can predict the number of red M&M's in the bag by multiplying the total number of M&M's by this percentage: 500 x 0.16 = 80.

Therefore, I would predict that there are approximately 80 red M&M's in the bag.