Question

A bag has 5 yellow marbles, 3 red marbles and 2 blue marbles. Quinn randomly picks a marble from the bag and returns it before another is picked. How many times would Quinn expect to pick a blue marble if he picks a marble 200 times?

Answer 1

Answer:40 blue marbles

Explanation:

First find the probability of a blue marble

P (blue) = number of blue marbles / total marbles

= 2 blue/ ( 5+3+2) total

= 2/10

=1/5

We can use this since we return the marble to the bag each time

We multiply this by 200 for the number of times it is picked

200 * 1/5 = 40

We should expect to pick 40 blue marbles

Answer 2

Quinn can expect to pick blue 40 times

Explanation:

the probability of picking blue is stated as 2/10 which can be reduced to 1/5

multiply the number of times they pick a marble ( shown as 200) by the probability of picking a blue one ( 1/5)

200 x 1/5 = 200 / 5 = 40

Quinn can expect to pick blue 40 times