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

To find out how many colored pencils you would expect to be unsharpened, you can set up a proportion based on Avery's random selection:

2 unsharpened colored pencils out of 50 selected

x unsharpened colored pencils out of 300 total

2/50 = x/300

To solve for x:

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

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