Abox contains 100 colored chips; some are pink and some are blue. milton chooses a chip at random, records the color, and places it back in the bag. milton has recorded 12 pink chips and 18 blue chips. using these results, what is the predicted number of pink chips in the box?

456567546657689765432567890-9876543567890-987657890

step-by-step explanation:

answer: the answer is one of

step-by-step explanation:   we are given to write a proper fraction where the whole is divided into an even number of equal parts less than ten, and an odd number of those parts exist.

an even number less than 10 may be one of 2, 4, 6 or 8. so, the whole may be one of these four evens.

now, an odd number of these parts must exist, so the numerator must be an odd number, one of 1, 3, 5 or 7. it cannot be 9 because then the fraction will become improper.

thus, our fraction may be one of the following