There are 1,500 apples in a cold storage room. Some are green apples, and the rest are red apples. The manager of the cold storage facility wants to estimate the number of green apples in the room. He takes a random sample of 20 apples and records the number of green apples. He repeats this 15 times and records the data as shown.

Question

There are 1,500 apples in a cold storage room. Some are green apples, and the rest are red apples. The manager of the cold storage facility wants to estimate the number of green apples in the room. He takes a random sample of 20 apples and records the number of green apples. He repeats this 15 times and records the data as shown.

Percentage of Green Apples
in a Sample Number of Times Percentage
Occurred
25% 1
35% 2
40% 3
45% 3
50% 3
55% 1
60% 2
Total 15

The dot plot for the data is shown.

From the data, what is the best prediction for the percentage of green apples in the room?

Answer 1

Based on the data collected from the random samples, the best prediction for the percentage of green apples in the room would be around 45%, as it occurred the most frequently (3 times out of 15 samples).