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?
20
120
12
2
To find the expected number of unsharpened colored pencils, we need to find the proportion of unsharpened colored pencils in the basket.
The proportion of unsharpened colored pencils is 2 unsharpened pencils out of 50 selected pencils.
So, the proportion is 2/50 = 1/25.
To find the expected number of unsharpened colored pencils in the basket, we multiply the proportion by the total number of colored pencils in the basket: (1/25) * 300 = 12.
Therefore, we would expect 12 colored pencils to be unsharpened.
Answer: 12.