4% of its pills are defective. how many pills do they have to make to deliver 5,000 pills?

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Cassius Sullivan

15 May, 20:33

4% of its pills are defective. how many pills do they have to make to deliver 5,000 pills?

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5,209

Step-by-step explanation:

If 4% are defective, you need 5,000 to equal 96% of pills produced (100%-4%). Knowing this, we can do 5,000/96 to get 1%, which is ~52. ~52*4 = 208.333. We can round this up to 209 to safely say they need to make 5,209 pills do deliver 5,000 effective pills.