SOLUTION: You are working as a fruit inspector. You test 20 packages of strawberries and find 3 are contaminated. If those 20 packages had been sold in a store, a shopper would have a probab

SOLUTION: You are working as a fruit inspector. You test 20 packages of strawberries and find 3 are contaminated. If those 20 packages had been sold in a store, a shopper would have a probab

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Question 1101281: You are working as a fruit inspector. You test 20 packages of strawberries and find 3 are contaminated. If those 20 packages had been sold in a store, a shopper would have a probability of
of choosing a contaminated package. Express your answer as a decimal. Round to two decimal places if needed.

Answer by Boreal(15235) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
3/20 would be the probability or 0.15.
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