Question

A cell phone company orders 500 new phones from a manufacturer. If the probability of a phone being defective is 2.6%, predict how many of the phones are likely to be defective. Round to the nearest whole number.

Answer 1

Type this into google and an HTML cache website will pop up, open it and the answer is there. CA?

Answer 2

500 times 0.026

Answer 3

First turn 2.6% into a decimal which is 0.026 then times by 500 too get.... ? do you know the answer?

Answer 4

13?

Answer 5

yup!! well done, 13 phones will be defective. Better to know how to do the problem then just googling it, right? :)

Answer 6

yup!

Answer 7

by the way, i don't know if you know but an easy way of remembering how to turn percentages into decimals is you just move the dot (.) two places to the left, so 50.00% = .5 , 25% = .25, 3.78% = .0378

Cool!!

Answer 8

oh yea i kno! ! thx anyway!

Answer 9

Ok :D no probs