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You have a giant bag of M&Ms and are wondering how many there are. You notice that there don’t seem to be nearly as many

orange M&Ms, so that feels doable to count. When you count the number of orange M&Ms in the giant bag you find that there are
48. If you then take a random sample and find that out of the 50 M&Ms you select, 3 of them are orange, how many M&Ms would
you estimate are in the giant bag?

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Answer:

800 M &Ms

Step-by-step explanation:

First, we can operate on the estimate that the proportion of M&Ms of the sample is equal to the proportion of M&Ms in the giant bag.

Therefore,

number of orange M&Ms in sample / sample size = number of orange M&Ms in bag / bag size

3/50 = 48 / bag size

multiply both sides by 50 to remove a denominator

3  = 48 * 50 / bag size

multiply both sides by bag size to remove the other denominator

3 * bag size = 48 * 50

divide both sides by 3 to isolate bag size

bag size = 48 * 50 / 3

bag size  = 800 M &Ms

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