Avery randomly selects 50 colored pencils from a basket finds that two are not sharpened if the basket contains 300 colored pencils how many would you expect to be unsharpened?

Answer 1

If Avery randomly selected 50 colored pencils and found that two were not sharpened, we can assume that the proportion of unsharpened colored pencils in the basket is 2/50.

To find out how many unsharpened colored pencils we would expect in a basket of 300 colored pencils, we can set up a proportion:

2/50 = x/300

Cross multiplying, we get:

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

Therefore, we would expect 12 colored pencils to be unsharpened in a basket containing 300 colored pencils.