Please help! Thank you.
You work at a candle factory of the 3076 candles shipped 567 have a defect. What is the experimental probability that a candle has a defect? Write your answer as a percent, to the nearest tenth of a percent.
18.4%
18.0%
16.2%
15.6%

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Please help! Thank you.
You work at a candle factory of the 3076 candles shipped 567 have a defect. What is the experimental probability that a candle has a defect? Write your answer as a percent, to the nearest tenth of a percent. 
18.4%
18.0%
16.2%
15.6%

joannablackwelder · Answer

Probability is number of what you are looking to occur/total occurrences and that fraction times 100

joannablackwelder · Answer

So, we are looking for the probability of the defect.

joannablackwelder · Answer

What is the number of candles with a defect?

anonymous · Answer

@JoannaBlackwelder 567

joannablackwelder · Answer

Right, and what is the total number of candles?

anonymous · Answer

3076

joannablackwelder · Answer

Nice :-) So, can you plug that into the formula I gave?

anonymous · Answer

So that would be 3076 * 567 * 100?

joannablackwelder · Answer

No, it is
(number of candles with a defect/total candles)*100

anonymous · Answer

Ohh okay, so 567 / 3076 * 100 which is 18.4% ?

joannablackwelder · Answer

Yep :-)

anonymous · Answer

@JoannaBlackwelder  Thank you so much for your help. :)

joannablackwelder · Answer

You're welcome!

anonymous · Answer

@JoannaBlackwelder Sorry, can you help me with one more?

joannablackwelder · Answer

Sure, but open a new question, please. Ang tag me.

joannablackwelder · Answer

*And

anonymous · Answer

okay, sure