SOLUTION: As part of a statistics project, a teacher brings a bag of marbles containing 500 white marbles and 200 red marbles. She asks her students to determine how many red marbles are in
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Question 1153666: As part of a statistics project, a teacher brings a bag of marbles containing 500 white marbles and 200 red marbles. She asks her students to determine how many red marbles are in the bag without counting them.
A student randomly draws 150 marbles from the bag. Of the 150 marbles, 39 are red.
The target population consists of
a. The 700 marbles in the bag
b. None of the above
c. The 39 red marbles drawn by the student
d. The 200 red marbles in the bag
e. The 150 marbles drawn by the student
The sample consists of
a. The 150 marbles drawn by the student
b. The 39 red marbles drawn by the student
c. None of the above
d. The 200 red marbles in the bag
e. The 700 marbles in the bag
Based on the sample, the student would estimate that _________ marbles in the bag were red. Answer by Boreal(15235) (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website! The population here is all the marbles in the bag or 700.
The sample is all the marbles drawn or 150.
Based on the sample, 39/150=x/700 one would estimate that there are 182 red marbles in the bag.
