Question

joseph buys a bag of jelly beans with assorted flavors. The table shows the results of Joseph taking 360 turns picking a jelly bean at random, recording the flavor, and then replacing the jelly bean in the bagJoseph randomly picks 18 jelly beans. what number is the most reasonable estimate of the amount of cherry jelly beans 18 jelly beans Joseph chose?

Answer 1

For this question you have to consider that the probability for something happening is the number of favorable cases over the total possible cases, in this problem

`\begin{gathered} P(\text{cherry) = 115/360} \\ P(\text{apple) = 127/360} \\ P(\text{blueberry) = 118/360} \end{gathered}`

Then the aprox amount of cherry jelly beans is P(cherry)*18 which is aprox equal to 6.