In a word problem, it might not be clear which operation the problem is asking you to do. But, 3 key words from which you know the problem is asking you to add are: increase, together, and gained. Though these are not all of them, these are some of the (arguably) most important ones.

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during 2002 the average person ate 220.8 pounds of meat how much meat does a family of 3 people eat in one year

7nadin3 [17]

You do 220.8 times 3. That's 662.4 pounds of meat in a year.

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ladessa [460]

The midpoint is (1,2)

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In a factory there are 100100 units of a certain product, 55 of which are defective. We pick three units from the 100 units at r

Nadya [2.5K]

Answer:

There is a 33.67% probability that exactly one of them is defective.

Step-by-step explanation:

A probability is the number of desired outcomes divided by the number of total outcomes.

Here, we can have different formats. For example, D-ND-ND is the same as ND-D-ND, that is, the ordering is not important. So we use the combinations formula.

Combinations formula:

$C_{n,x}$ is the number of different combinations of x objects from a set of n elements, given by the following formula.