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Suppose a student doing research studied 60 articles and found that .25 contained incorrect information.How many news articles contained incorrect information?

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Exactly 15 articles contained false information.

In order to find this, you simply have to multiply the number of total articles by the rate of fake articles.

60*.25 = 15 articles

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