Making predictions and inferences

[darkfire091898]

Please help with homework question: without looking megan selected starburst from a bag, and recorded each flavor and put each one back in the bag using this data from the table determine how many starburst of the following flavors are in the bag if the bag contains 200 starburst:
Strawberry-kiwi- Number pulled=5
melon-number pulled=4
banana-Number pulled=3
orange-number pulled= 1
mango-number pulled=7

How many mango?

 

[hmv]

Wouldn't you add up the total number of starburst in the table they gave you, which is 20. Then you could use a proportion to calculate the mango flavor if you were to have 200 starburst;

7 is to 20 as "x" is to 200 or 7/20=x/200 , and x=70