As a part of a class project, a teacher brings a jar of 200 jawbreakers of three different colors, orange, red and white. Students must estimate the number of white jawbreakers in the jar. Suppose that after the jar is shaken well, one student draws 30 jawbreakers from the jar, of w

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As a part of a class project, a teacher brings a jar of 200 jawbreakers of three different colors, orange, red and white. Students must estimate the number of white jawbreakers in the jar. Suppose that after the jar is shaken well, one student draws 30 jawbreakers from the jar, of which 9 are orange, 11 are red and 10 are white. 
Give the students sample statistic for the percent of white jawbreakers in the jar. Round to the nearest whole #. 

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