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A producer of electronic book readers is performing a quality check to ensure the reader's backlight is working correctly. The plant manager tests 2,000 readers on Monday and finds that 8 have defective backlights. The fraction StartFraction 1 over x EndFraction is the experimental probability of a book reader having a defective backlight. What is the value of x?

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Answer:

250

Explanation:

two thousand divided by eight = 250

2000/8=250

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Answer: 25

Explanation:

From the question, we are told that a producer of electronic book readers is performing a quality check to make sure that the reader's backlight is working correctly. Then, the plant manager tests 2,000 readers on Monday and finds that 8 have defective backlights. The fraction 1/x is the experimental probability of a book reader having a defective backlight. What is the value of x?

Number of tested readers= 2000

Defective backlight = 8

Probability of having a defective backlight will be the number of defective backlight divided by the number of readers tested. This will be:

= 8/200

We reduce the nice fraction to its lowest term.

8/200 = 1/25

Therefore x will be 25

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