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A company plans to ship 2,000 packages of chocolate. The company randomly selecta

100 packages and finds that five packages have an incorrect weight
Based on this data, how many packages out of 2,000 should be predicted to have an
incorrect weight?

User Spky
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Answer:

100 packages

Explanation:

If 5 packages out of 100 are incorrect , then there's a 1/20 chance that a package has an incorrect weight

Therefore out of 2000

it's


(1)/(20) * 2000 = 100

Hope it helps

Sorry I'm not really good at explaining

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