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)

Answer 1

[AI-generated answer — Bot GPT 3.5]

Based on the proportion of unsharpened colored pencils in the sample Avery selected (2 out of 50), we can estimate the total number of unsharpened colored pencils in the basket.

Let's set up a proportion:

2 unsharpened pencils / 50 pencils = x unsharpened pencils / 300 pencils

Cross multiply:

50x = 2 * 300
50x = 600
x = 600 / 50
x = 12

Therefore, we would expect around 12 colored pencils to be unsharpened in the basket of 300 colored pencils.