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#15: A shipment to a warehouse consists of 2,000 watchbands. The

manager chooses a random sample of 50 watchbands and finds that 2 are
defective. How many watchbands in the shipment are likely to be
defective?
watchbands
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User Jack Billy
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2 out of 50 are defective.

Divide 2 by 50: 2/50 = 0.04

Now multiply the total quantity by that:

2000 x 0.04 = 80

80 are likely to be defective.

User Hassan Khallouf
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