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A CD drive produced by a certain company has a 1% chance of encountering disc-read errors. If it is tested for 200 read operations, what is your best estimate about how many tim…

A CD drive produced by a certain company has a 1% chance of encountering disc-read errors. If it is tested for 200 read operations, what is your best estimate about how many tim…
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A CD drive produced by a certain company has a 1% chance of encountering disc-read errors. If it is tested for 200 read operations, what is your best estimate about how many times it will fail?

A. 0
B. 2
C. 3
D. 5
E. 10

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User Justus Metzger
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Answer: b is the answer which it is two


Explanation:


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User Jackie Yeh
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The number of times that the CD will fail is the product of the numbers it was tested and the percentage that it would fail. This is,
(200 times) x (0.01) = 2
It is estimated that the CD will fail twice. The answer is letter B.
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