Question

A farmer examines a sample of 25 cartons of eggs and finds that 3 contain cracked eggs. What is the best prediction of the number of cartons with cracked eggs in a delivery with 500 cartons?

6
12
60
120

Answer 1

@Cas_fangirl_14 @rebeccaxhawaii

Answer 2

If there are 3 cracked eggs per 25 eggs.
Divide 500/25. You will get 20.
Multiply 3/25 both top and bottom by 20
You will get 60/500 or 3/5
This means that 60 eggs out of 500 will be cracked.

Answer 3

wow thx

Answer 4

Better than me just giving you the answer? :)