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A cell phone company orders 500 new phones from a manufacturer. If the probability of a phone being defective is 2.9%, predict how many of the phones are likely to be defective. Round to the nearest whole number.

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about 15 phones are likely to be defective
User Pubby
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this is
500 * 0.029 = 15 to the nearest whole number

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