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A company plans to ship 2000 packages of chocolate. The company randomly selects 100 packages and finds that five packages have an incorrect weight . Based on the data, how many packages out of the 2000 should be predictable to have an incorrect weight?

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100 packages would have an incorrect weight.

2000 packages divided by 100 packages randomly picked = 20 times on how many 100 packages can be picked multiplied by 5 = 100

Formula:

2000/100 = 20 x 5 = 100
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