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he editors found that 0.0016 of the words in the book were misspelled. if there were 250,000 words in the book how many words were spelled properly

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the answer is 400
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Since 0.0016 of the words were misspelled (and it's not in a percent), we can multiply 250,000 by 0.0016 to get 400
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