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Erma maintains an active blog about her seashell collection. She has 500 white shells, 325 yellow shells, 115 pink shells and 60 green shells in her jar. She asks Sweet T to reach into her jar and pull out a random seashell. Then she replaces it and shakes up the jar before asking Sweet T to pick another shell. Which model shows the probability of randomly selecting each color shell from her jar?

A. white: 100% Pink : 23% yellow:65% green:12%
B. white: 60% pink:10% yellow:20% green:10%
C. white: 25% pink:25% yellow:25% green:25%
D. white: 50% pink:11.5% yellow:32.5 green:6%

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Answer: D
Total number of shells= 1000

White= 500/100 = 50%

Yellow= 325/1000= 32.5 %

Pink= 115/1000 = 11.5%

Green= 60/1000 = 6%
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