SOLUTION: The local grocery store receives shipments of fresh eggs daily. If each shipment of 44 is bound to have 4 broken eggs, then it can be predicted that there will be 29 broken eggs in
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Question 848522: The local grocery store receives shipments of fresh eggs daily. If each shipment of 44 is bound to have 4 broken eggs, then it can be predicted that there will be 29 broken eggs in a shipment of how many?
317 eggs
321 eggs
325 eggs
319 eggs Answer by josgarithmetic(39620) (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website! Treat this like a proportion.
44/4 is the ratio expected or typically found of shipment quantity to broken count quantity. Letting Q = unknown shipment quantity, the proportion is ;
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