Mr. Lim has a bag with some marbles colored red, yellow, green, blue, and white. The marbles are identical in number. Mr. Lim will conduct a chance experiment by randomly drawing a marble from the bag and then returning it after noting the color. Based on 50 trials, how many green marbles will Mr. Lim expect to pick?

___ green marbles

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Assuming that the marbles are equally distributed in the bag, let's first determine the probability of drawing a green marble.

Since there are 5 colors of marbles (red, yellow, green, blue, and white), the probability \( P \) of drawing a green marble is:

\[ P(\text{green}) = \frac{1}{5} \]

Mr. Lim will conduct 50 trials. To find the expected number of green marbles he will pick, we can use the formula for expected value, which is:

\[ \text{Expected number of green marbles} = P(\text{green}) \times \text{Number of trials} \]

Substituting the values:

\[ \text{Expected number of green marbles} = \frac{1}{5} \times 50 = 10 \]

Thus, Mr. Lim can expect to pick \(\boxed{10}\) green marbles.