A bag contains 26 purple jellybeans, 15 green jellybeans, and 9 yellow jellybeans; these jellybeans are the only items in the bag. If a person peaches into the bag and picks out only purple jellybeans, how many jellybeans would the person have to pick out in order to double the probability that a jellybean picked out of the bag at random would be a green jellybean?

A bag contains 26 purple jellybeans, 15 green jellybeans, and 9 yellow jellybeans; these jellybeans are the only items in the bag. If a person peaches into the bag and picks out only purple jellybeans, how many jellybeans would the person have to pick out in order to double the probability that a jellybean picked out of the bag at random would be a green jellybean? Correct Answer 25

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