Avery randomly selects 50 colored pencils from the basket and finds that two are not sharpened if the basket contains 300 colored pencils how many would you expect to be un sharpened? Would your answer be 20 or 120 or two or 12?

Answer 1

The probability of selecting an unsharpened colored pencil is 2/300 or 1/150.

Therefore, we would expect approximately 1/150 of the colored pencils in the basket to be unsharpened.

Since Avery randomly selected 50 colored pencils out of 300, we would expect approximately 50*(1/150) = 1/3 colored pencils to be unsharpened.

So, the answer is approximately 1/3 or 12 colored pencils to be unsharpened.

Therefore, the closest answer choice is 12.