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?
If 2 out of 50 colored pencils are not sharpened, we can calculate the percentage of unsharpened pencils:
2 / 50 = 0.04 or 4%
Therefore, we can expect that approximately 4% of the colored pencils in the basket are unsharpened.
To find out how many colored pencils we would expect to be unsharpened out of 300 colored pencils, we can calculate:
4% of 300 = 0.04 x 300 = 12
So, we would expect approximately 12 colored pencils out of 300 to be unsharpened.