Question

A large bag contains red, blue, green, and yellow candies. Seth grabbed a handful and counted 12 red, 15 blue, 6 green, and 7 yellow candies. If the bag contains a total of 800 candies, which is the best prediction for the total number of blue candies in the bag?

Answer 1

300

Explanation:

There are 12 red, 15 blue, 6 green, and 7 yellow candies. 12+15+6+7=40

Seth sampled 40 out of 800. so we divide 800 by 40 to get 800/40=20

So since we want to predict the blue candies we multiply 20*15=300