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A cell phone company orders 400 new phones from a manufacturer. If the probability of a phone being defective is 2.1%, predict how many of the phones are likely to be defective.

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Answer: there would be 8 defective phones.

Step-by-step explanation: assuming that only 2 percent is defective and the other 98 are not, every hundred phones ordered, two would be defective.

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