As part of a statistics project, a 6th grade teacher brings to class a container with 300 red marbles and 500 white marbles which are thoroughly mixed. To figure out how many marbles in the container are red without actually counting them all, a student randomly draws 40 marbles from the container. Of the 40 marbles drawn, 16 are red.Suppose that the student is given the N-value. What is a reasonable estimate for the number of red marbles in the container?

A. 107
B. 300
C. 480
D. 320
E. none of these


Answer: D

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