The manufacturer of a popular brand of markers is planning to release a new color. To determine which color to add, it mailed out surveys to 5,000 of its customers regarding the general color family they prefer. The returned results are shown in this pie chart. Based on the results, one member of the management team says they should choose the new color from the blue family of colors since a majority of people prefer those colors.

Another member doesn’t agree and thinks they should do more research. Which statements would support her request?

A majority of the management team prefers the yellow family of colors.
Not all color families were represented in the survey, which could cause a nonresponse bias.
Since only existing customers were surveyed, the results were not random.
The difference among the percentages is not statistically significant enough to make the claim of majority.
The mail-in survey may have resulted in an undercoverage bias.

There are 105 pennies in the piggy bank.

There are 42 nickels in the piggy bank.

Step-by-step explanation:

there are:

p pennies in the piggy bank

n nickels in the piggy bank

Then we can define T, the total number of coins, as:

T = p + n

We know that 2/7 of the total number of coins are nickels.

This can be written as:

n = (2/7)*T = (2/7)*(n + p)

And if we remove 84 pennies, 1/3 of the remaining coins are pennies.

This can be written as:

p - 84 = (1/3)*(n + p - 84)

Then we have a system of two equations:

n = (2/7)*(n + p)

p - 84 = (1/3)*(n + p - 84)

Let's solve the system, to do it, we first need to isolate one of the variables in one of the equations.

We can isolate n in the first one, to get:

n = (2/7)*(n + p) = (2/7)*n + (2/7)*p

n - (2/7)*n = (2/7)*p

n*(5/7) = (2/7)*p

n = (7/5)*(2/7)*p = (2/5)*p

n = (2/5)*p

Now we can replace this in the other equation:

p - 84 = (1/3)*(n + p - 84)

p - 84 = (1/3)*( (2/5)*p + p - 84)

Let's solve this for p

p - 84 = (1/3)*( (7/5)*p - 84)

3*(p - 84) = (7/5)*p - 84

3p - 252 = (7/5)*p - 84

3*p - (7/5)*p = 252 - 84

(15/5)*p - (7/5)*p = 168

(8/5)*p = 168

p = (5/8)*168 = 105

There are 105 pennies in the piggy bank.

And we know that:

n = (2/5)*p = (2/5)*105 = 42

There are 42 nickels in the piggy bank.