Question

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A company manufactures CD drives that have a 1.6% chance of experiencing disc-read errors. If a CD drive is tested for 250 read operations, the number of times it may fail is

Answer 1

The answer is 4.

Explanation:

Multiply 250 with 1.6%. 1.6% is also written as 0.016.

So pretty much you multiply 250 with 0.016 and you get 4.