document.write( "Question 1186283: According to the manufacturer of Candy-Coated Sugar Blivets, twenty percent of all the Blivets they sell are pink. Assuming that a bag of Candy-Coated Sugar Blivets is a random sample containing 175 Blivets, find the smallest and the largest \"usual\" values for the number of pink Blivets in a bag. Remember that the number of pink Blivets in a bag has to be a whole number.\r
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document.write( "15% of 175 is  0.15*175 = 26.25.\r\n" );
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document.write( "In order for the answer was meaningful, we should round this decimal up and down to the closest integer numbers.\r\n" );
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document.write( "So, the \"usual\" numbers are 26 (minimum) and 27 (maximum).\r\n" );
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