Question

Amy brought a bag of lollipops. It contained 30 lollipops and 6 of them were grape flavored. What would be a good prediction of the number of grape lollipops there would be in a bag of 100 lollipops?

Answer 1

Might be 20

Explanation:

6/30 x 100

Answer 2

20 grape lollipops

Explanation:

From the 30 lollipops, 6 were grape

P(grape) = grape/total

=6/30

=1/5

If we get 100 lollipop, to determine the number that would be grape, we multiply the number of lollipops by the probability that they are grape

grape = number * probability

= 100 * 1/5

=20