SOLUTION: Please help me solve this in simple way. A telemarketer calls people and tries to sell them a subscription to a daily newspaper. On 23% of her calls, there is no answer or the l

Question 1119876: Please help me solve this in simple way.
A telemarketer calls people and tries to sell them a subscription to a daily newspaper. On 23% of her calls, there is no answer or the line is busy. She sells subscriptions to 5% of the remaining calls. For what proportion of calls does she make a sale?
Proportion =
Answer by Boreal(15235) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Assume 100 calls.
77 of them get an answer
5% of 77 is 3.85 or 4
The proportion is 4% or 3.85% exactly.
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