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?

Question

A. 20
B. 12
C. 2
D. 120

Answer 1

B. 12

Since 2 out of 50 colored pencils were found to be unsharpened, we can calculate the proportion of unsharpened colored pencils in the basket as 2/50 = 0.04.

Therefore, we can expect that 0.04 * 300 = 12 colored pencils in the basket will be unsharpened.