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\n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "An automobile manufacturer selected a random sample of 150 of its cars and found a defective steering assembly in 5 of the 150 cars. If the manufacturer had turned out 5000 cars under the same conditions, how many of these should it expect to have defective steering assemblies?
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document.write( "Hi,        
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document.write( "Let x represent the number expected to be defective with 5000 cars
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document.write( "Question Sets Up the Proportion
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document.write( "cross Multitplying to solve for x
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document.write( " 150x = 5*5000
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document.write( "    x = 5*5000/150
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document.write( "    x =  167, the number expected to be defective with 5000 cars
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