Nicholas performs an experiment in which he pulls a marble from a bag. In his experiment, he finds that he is twice as likely to pull a red marble as a blue marble. If Nicholas pulls 10 red marbles, how many blue marbles does he pull?

Nicholas pulls 5 blue marbles from the bag.

Step-by-step explanation:

Since Nicholas performs an experiment in which he pulls a marble from a bag, and in his experiment, he finds that he is twice as likely to pull a red marble as a blue marble, to determine, if Nicholas pulls 10 red marbles, how many blue marbles does he pull, the following calculation must be performed:

10/2 = X

5 = X

Therefore, Nicholas pulls 5 blue marbles from the bag.

the mistake in the pattern is that :

b. the decimal point was moved one too many place values each time

the correct pattern could be made by :

b. moving the decimal point to the right the same numbers of place values as the exponents