Question

Henry's Jewelry Store receives a shipment of 500 jewelry pieces, but 15 pieces are damaged. At this rate, if Henry's Jewelry Store places an order for 5,500 jewelry pieces, how many should they expect to be damaged? They should expect pieces of jewelry to be damaged.

Answer 1

They should expect 165 damaged pieces in 5500 jewelry pieces

Explanation:

The first thing we need to do is to get some metrics to measure the rate at which the damaged jewelry is seen.

We can use 15 pieces of jewelry that are damaged for every 500 ordered.

Once this is done, we can then use this to estimate how many pieces of jewelry are damaged if 5,500 are ordered.

We now need to know how many sets of 500 pieces of Jewelry are in 5,500.

This is 5,500/ 500 = 11 sets

Therefore, all 11 sets will have 15 damaged pieces of jewelry each. The total number of damaged jewelry pieces will be 15 X 11 = 165 damaged pieces