Question

An apple orchard's workers pick 12,500 apples in the month of October. A sample of 300 of these apples shows that 15 of them are damaged and bruised.

What is the best estimate of the number of apples picked at the orchard in October that are bruised and damaged?

Question 18 options:

42


625


750


1875

Answer 1

625

Explanation:

Convert 15300 to a percent,

We can convert it to it's lowest fraction,

120, and to find the percent just multiply it by 5 on top and bottom,

120 ×5×5

which equals, 5100

Then take the percent as a decimal, 0.5 and multiply it by 12500,

12500×0.5 which would give you: 625