Question

A producer of electronic book readers is performing a quality check to ensure the reader's backlight is working correctly. The plant manager tests 2,000 readers on Monday and finds that 8 have defective backlights. The fraction StartFraction 1 over x EndFraction is the experimental probability of a book reader having a defective backlight. What is the value of x?

Answer 1

Answer: 25

Step-by-step explanation:

From the question, we are told that a producer of electronic book readers is performing a quality check to make sure that the reader's backlight is working correctly. Then, the plant manager tests 2,000 readers on Monday and finds that 8 have defective backlights. The fraction 1/x is the experimental probability of a book reader having a defective backlight. What is the value of x?

Number of tested readers= 2000

Defective backlight = 8

Probability of having a defective backlight will be the number of defective backlight divided by the number of readers tested. This will be:

= 8/200

We reduce the nice fraction to its lowest term.

8/200 = 1/25

Therefore x will be 25