No they are not equivalent
Base times height equals area of a parallelogram
Solution: The sample mean of sample 1 is:

The sample mean of sample 2 is:

The sample mean of sample 3 is:

The sample mean of sample 4 is:

The minimum sample mean of the four sample means is 3.6 and maximum sample mean of the four sample means is 4.4.
Therefore, using his four samples, between 3.6 and 4.4 will Ardem's actual population mean lie.
Hence the option 3.6 and 4.4 is correct
Most of the information's are already given in the question. It is important to understand the language of the problem for solving the problem. Once the language is understood, then solving the problem is easy.
Let us assume the number of black jelly beans = x
Number of yellow jelly beans = y
Then from the question we can get to a equation.
3x - 7 = y
We also know from the question that
x + y = 225
x + 3x -7 = 225
4x = 225 + 7
4x = 232
x = 232/4
= 58
So Cassidy has 58 black jelly beans out of the total of 225 jelly beans