1. **State the problem:** Marco designed a spinner wheel with 4 equal sections (red, blue, green, yellow), each supposed to have a 25% chance of landing.
2. **Expected outcomes:** Since the spinner is spun 500 times, the expected number of times landing on each color is $$500 \times 0.25 = 125$$.
3. **Compare actual results to expected:**
- Red: 80 (less than 125)
- Blue: 165 (more than 125)
- Green: 130 (slightly more than 125)
- Yellow: 125 (exactly 125)
4. **Analyze the differences:**
- Red is underrepresented by $$125 - 80 = 45$$ spins.
- Blue is overrepresented by $$165 - 125 = 40$$ spins.
- Green is overrepresented by $$130 - 125 = 5$$ spins.
- Yellow matches expectation.
5. **Interpretation:** The red section is smaller than it should be, and the blue section is larger than it should be.
6. **Best fix:** To increase the red section's area, we need to decrease the area of the blue section (which is too large). This matches option B.
**Final answer:** B. He should increase the area of the red section by decreasing the area of the blue section.
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