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

You can use proportions to solve this problem.

First, set up a proportion between the number of unsharpened colored pencils in the sample and the total number of colored pencils in the sample:

2/50 = x/300

Simplify by cross-multiplying:

2 * 300 = 50 * x

600 = 50x

Divide both sides by 50:

x = 12

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