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)

Question

Responses

2
2

12
12

120
120

20
20

Answer 1

Based on the proportion of unsharpened colored pencils in the sample, we can estimate the number of unsharpened colored pencils in the entire basket.

Number of unsharpened colored pencils in basket = (Number of unsharpened colored pencils in sample) * (Total number of colored pencils in basket) / (Total number of colored pencils in sample)
Number of unsharpened colored pencils in basket = (2) * (300) / (50) = 12

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

The correct answer is 12.