[Colorees are small candies] Fran's favorite kind of Colorees is green. Se purchased a large bag of Colorees which had 311 total candies of which 63 were green. Should Fran feel cheated? In other words, did she get her fair share of greens? Show all computations and explanations. (all of the colors are yellow, blue, green, and red)
2007-03-01 07:38:38 · 11 answers · asked by lauraandbeccy 1 in Education & Reference ➔ Homework Help
My answer would be yes she should feel cheated, and thank you for including the other colors. If you divide 311(the total number of candies) by 4 (the number of different colors) you get 77.75. Fran only got 63 green, so that is less than the average. She was shorted 14.75 green candies.
2007-03-01 07:43:40 · answer #1 · answered by young61021 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well if there were an equal amount of Colorees of each color, three would have 78, with one having 77. Since she only received 63 greens, she was shorted about 14 or 15 Colorees in a case that there were an equal amount of colors in the bag. First you divide 311 by 4 and see what that makes, which proves that 3 colors would have 78 and one would have 77. I hope that makes sense. ;)
2007-03-01 07:49:29 · answer #2 · answered by Jenny007 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2007-03-01 07:47:44 · answer #3 · answered by jsdka2006 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Divide 4 into 311 = that will give you the amount each color would have to be. 77 3/4 each color.
So yes she got cheated on greens. This is a percentage problem.
So take 311-63 green ones this leaves you with 248 divide that by the number of colors you have left which is 3.
248 divided 3 = 82 2/3 ---- Yip she really got cheated on those green ones.
2007-03-01 07:50:24 · answer #4 · answered by Silly Girl 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes you should feel cheated considering 78 candles of each color would be the equal distribution. Meaning you recieved more of the other colorees than the one you like.
2007-03-01 07:45:17 · answer #5 · answered by chemreaction 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well 20% of the candy was green.. she should only feel gypped if there is only one other color.. but if there are at least 5 colors in the bag.. she got a fair share.. if there are more than 5 colors she got more
2007-03-01 07:43:08 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think so, if you do 311 divided by 4 you get 77 which is one quarter but she got 63 which is less than a quarter so yeah
2007-03-01 07:42:38 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
yes she should have received at least 77 green ones..(311 divided by the 4 available colors)..
2007-03-01 07:47:41 · answer #8 · answered by italianone70 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
all the colors available are yellow, blue, green, and red. so there are 4v colors
311/4=77.75
63/77.75=81%
seems a bit on the shy side or random chance. so yes
2007-03-01 07:46:41 · answer #9 · answered by Old guy 124 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Subtract 15 from the two factors and then multiply by utilising -a million to get the y by utilising itself. if its mroe comfortable chage the y to an x because it would not easily count as long as you adjust each and all of the y's to x's. in any case you get -18. desire it helps
2016-10-02 05:11:02 · answer #10 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋