Question

A police department reported that approximately 5% of the alarm calls they get each day are real emergencies and not false alarms. If they receive 120 alarm calls in one day, about how many of them would be false alarms?​

Answer 1

Well, if 5% of them are real, that means 95% of the calls they get each day are false alarms.

If we set up our inequality and multiply (Which i'm assuming you know how to do) We would get 114. Therefore, 114 calls would be false alarms.

Answer 2

6

Explanation:

5% of 120 is 6.