Question

Jason is conducting an experiment using a bag of marbles. For each trial of the experiment, hetakes 1 marble from the bag without looking. He records the color and then replaces the marblein the bag. The table shows the results of 20 trials of the experiment.Results of ExperimentBlue Green Yellow8 5 7Jason will conduct 5 more trials of the experiment. Based on the results in the table, how manyof those marbles should be blue?

Answer 1

`\begin{gathered} \text{The table shows the result of 20 trials, for 20 trials there are 8 blue:} \\ \text{Then, for 5 more trials, how many blue marbles (x):} \\ (20)/(8)=(5)/(x) \\ 20x=40 \\ x=(40)/(20) \\ x=2 \end{gathered}`

2 of these marbles should be blue.