Suppose you did a random sample of 25 mountain bikes out of 500 bikes made by a company .If you found 1 of the bikes broken in your sample,how many of the 500 would you expect tobe broken

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Answer:

20 bikes

Step-by-step explanation:

Set up a proportion: [tex]\frac{1}{25}=\frac{x}{500}[/tex]

Cross-multiply: [tex]500=25x[/tex]

Isolate the variable: [tex]\frac{500}{25} =x[/tex]

[tex]20=x[/tex]