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In typical small bag of colored candies has about 135 candies in it, 27 of which are blue. At this rate, how many blue candies would you expect in a pile of 1000 colored candies?

 Oct 25, 2016
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Just set it up as a ratio:

 

27/135 = x/1000

 

so  x = 27/135 x 1000 = 200

 Oct 25, 2016

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