A bag of ten tennis balls that are three different colors. Chaz picks a ball from the bag 40 times without looking and returns it to the bag each time. The results of his experiment are 4 pink, 21 yellow, and 15 purple. How many of each color ball do you think are in the bag? Explain your answers.

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anonymous · Answer

a guess : 5 pink , 2 yellow 3 purple?

anonymous · Answer

not possible as he only picked 4 times pink  out of total 40 times. what I guess is 1 pink , 5 yellow and 4 purple as 1: 4 ration between 10 balls and 40 total pick's. what do u think? please confirm. thnks

anonymous · Answer

1 pink , 4/40 is 1/10 of 10
5 yellow 21/40 is about 1/2 of 10
4 purple 15/40 is about 16/40= 4/10 of 10