Question

Ida purchases a variety bag of taffy to share with her friends. The bag contains pieces with the flavors of blueberry, strawberry, and lemon. Ida wants to know how many pieces of each flavor are in the bag. She pulls 25 pieces from the bag at random and records their flavor. Her results are shown in the following table.

A: Given the results of Ida’s experiment, what is the probability that the next piece of taffy she pulls from the bag will be lemon-flavored?
B: If the bag contains a total of 200 pieces of taffy, how many of the pieces are likely lemon-flavored?
Select one answer for question A and one answer for question B.
(Table Below)
Flavor Count
blueberry 8
strawberry 5
lemon 12

Possible Answers:
A: 8/25
A: 12/25
A: 13/25
A: 3/5
B: 96 pieces
B: 40 pieces
B: 64 pieces
B: 100 pieces

Answer 1

A. 12/25

B. 96 pieces

Explanation:

A. For this, Ida got 12/25 lemon taffies, therefore the probability is the same.

B. The ratio of lemon to other taffies is 12/25. This means that for every 25 pieces of taffy, 12 of them are lemmon. If you multiply the numerator and denominator by 8, you get 96/200, which says that out of 200 pieces, 96 should be candy.