A bag contains 100 marbles which are red, green, and blue. Suppose a student randomly selects a marble without looking, records
the color, and then places the marble back in the bag. The student has recorded 7 red marbles, 2 green marbles and 11 blue marbles. Predict how many red marbles are in the bag.
So we can put the different color marbles in a ratio. So 7:2:11. If we add all of those up we get 20. We do 100/20 to get 5. Each number in the ratio is equivalent to 5 marbles. Then we do 7*5 to get 35. We can check our work by doing, (7*5) + (2*5) + (11*5) = 100. And it does equal 100 so the answer is correct.
I think the answer is 32% because if you turn 32% into a decimal (which would be 0.32) then multiply it by 25 you would get 8. Which then means if he stopped 8 times and went through 25 intersections then he stopped at 32% of the intersections. I hope this helps :)
Here's a way this can help! If the graph it by two then any odd number will by by the middle, start by the origin and you'll be able to see it clearly.
