500 articles were slected at random out of a batch containing 10000 articles and 30 were found to be defective.how many defective articles would you reasonably except to have in the whole batch?
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We are given a sample of 500 articles out of a total of 10,000 articles. In this sample, 30 articles are defective. We need to estimate the total number of defective articles in the entire batch of 10,000 based on this sample. Show more…
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