SOLUTION: If you were given a small bag of M&M's with 40 candies in it, using the percentages in the table below, how many of each color would you "expect" to find? (Give your answers to the

Question 991712: If you were given a small bag of M&M's with 40 candies in it, using the percentages in the table below, how many of each color would you "expect" to find? (Give your answers to the nearest whole number.)

Answer by jim_thompson5910(35256) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
You forgot to post the table. To find the expected number for each color, you multiply the total number (40) by the decimal form of the percentage.

Example: if the package says "20% of the candies are red", then we would expect 40*0.20 = 8 candies to be red. Notice how I converted 20% to 0.20
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