Question

A manufacturer inspects 100 boxes of ice cream cones

after production to make sure no cones are cracked or
damaged. They find that 97 boxes have no defects. If
5,000 boxes of ice cream cones are being shipped to the
grocery stores, predict how many boxes will have damaged
ice cream cones.

Answer 1

4850 boxes

Explanation:

97 out of 100 boxes have no defects, can be translated into 97% of boxes have no defects. Using this number, we can find 97% of 5,000 to make an estimate of how many boxes will not have defects
.97(5,000)=4850