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)
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.