Question

A bag contains 8 yellow marbles and 40 green marbles. If a representative sample contains 2 yellow ​marbles, then how many green marbles would you expect it to​ contain? Explain.

Answer 1

10 green

Explanation:

yellow: green

8:40

Divide each side by 4 to get to 2 yellow marbles

8/4: 40/4

2 : 10

If we have 2 yellow marbles, we should get 10 green marbles