Question

A researcher's garden contains 90 sweet pea plants, which have either white or purple flowers. About 70 of the plants have purple flowers and about 20 have white flowers. Would you expect that one plant randomly selected from the garden will have purple or white flowers. Explain.

I need a bit of help on this one please.

Answer 1

Think about it. How many white flowers? How many purple flowers?

Answer 2

Is this a good anwer

I would expect it to be purple because the odds of getting purple are 7:2.

Answer 3

Great answer!