Question

The manager of a warehouse would like to know how many errors are made when a product’s serial number is read by a bar-code reader. Six samples are collected of the number of scanning errors: 36, 14, 21, 39, 11, and 2 errors, per 1,000 scans each.

What number of errors is made by all scans, based on these six samples?

Answer 1

there were a total of 123 errors made during the 6,000 scans.

Explanation:

Answer 2

In order to determine the total number of errors that were made by the bar code scanner, we first have to calculate how many total scans were made. Because there were six items scanned 1,000 times each, there were 6,000 total scans made. Next, we have to add up the total number of errors made by each item (36+14+21+39+11+2). As a result, there were a total of 123 errors made during the 6,000 scans.