SOLUTION: a company made 6100 computer chips. if 2.5% were defective, how many chips were not defective?

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Question 20316: a company made 6100 computer chips. if 2.5% were defective, how many chips were not defective?
Answer by elima(1433) About Me  (Show Source):
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First find out how many were defective;
6100*2.5%=152.5
If 152.2 were defective the rest were not, so we;
6100-152.5=5947.5 were not defective
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