Question

Esmeralda received a bag of jellybeans that contained a mixture of regular flavored jellybeans and "surprise" jellybeans. The bag advertised that 15% of the jellybeans were "surprise" flavors. If she counted 40 jellybeans in the bag, how many should she expect to be the "surprise" jellybeans?

Answer 1

6 jellybean

Explanation:

Given that:

Esmeralda received a bag of jellybean the contains regular flavored jelly beans and surprise jelly bean.

Consider the regular flavored jellybean to be = r; &

The surprise jelly bean.= s

From the bag, there are 40 jellybeans of which 15% is surprise jellybean.

Therefore the number of expected surprise jellybeans is:

= total number of jellybeans × percentage of surprise jellybean

= 40 × (15 /100)

= 6 jellybean

If 6 surprise jellybean is presented in the bag; then the number of regular flavored jellybean = 40 - 6 = 34 regular flavored jellybean