Question

A shipment to a warehouse consists of 3,500 MP3 players. The manager chooses a random sample of 50 MP3 players and finds that 3 are defective. How many MP3 players in the shipment are likely to be defective?

Answer 1

210

Explanation:

Given: Number of MP3 Players in a shipment = 3,500

Number of defective MP3 Players in a random sample of 50 MP3 players = 3

To find: Number of defective MP3 Players out of 3,500 MP3 players

Solution:

Number of defective MP3 Players in a random sample of 50 MP3 players = 3

Number of defective MP3 Players in a random sample of 3,500 MP3 players
`=(3)/(50)* 3500=210`