Question

A jar contains 8 red marbles, 10 blue ones, and Red Blue Yellow 2 yellow ones. One marble is chosen at random. The color is recorded in the table, and then it is 14 returned to the jar. This is repeated 40 times. 19. Communicate Mathematical Ideas Use proportional reasoning to explain how you know that for each color, the theoretical and experimental probabilities are not the same.

Answer 1

There is a total of 20 marbles. The odds are that red would be pulled 16 times, blue 20 times and the yellow 4 times