Suppose an experiment consists of randomly drawing a marble out of a bag and replacing the marble. The bag contains 3 yellow, 4 red, and 8 blue marbles. If the experiment was repeated 20 times, how many times would you predict the marble would be yellow?

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Answer 1 · 2016-09-05T07:59:34

4 times

Notice that we are not being asked for a probability, which would give an answer from 0 to 1.

We are asked for a number of times .

The number of times a yellow would be drawn depends on the fraction of the marbles which are yellow.

#3/15 xx 20 = 4 # times