Act career ready 101 applied math level 5

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An electronic firm finds that 4% of its resistors are defective.

How many resistors do they have to make to deliver 5,000 resistors?

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Explanation & Answer

Let x = the number of total resistors they have to make

Then,

(1 - 0.04)x = 5000

0.96x = 5000

x = 5208


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