Question

A typical small bag of colored candies has about 135 candies in it, 27 of which are blue. At this rate, how many blue candies would you expect in a pile of 1,000 colored candies?

Answer 1

216

Explanation:

21/135 are blue

This is a ratio problem so first we find how many 135s go into 1000 by doing 1000/135 = approx 8

So with this we would expect approximately 27 x 8 candies which is 216 :)

Answer 2

about 179 blue candies in a bag 0f 1,000 candies . .

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Explanation:

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