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In a certain lawn-mower factory, 0.06 percent of all mowers produced are defective. On the average, there will be 3 defective mowers out of how many produced?

A 500
B 1,800
C 5,000
D 18,000
E 50,000

Recall that 0.06 percent means 0.06 out of every 100, or 6 out of every 10,000. The question asks for an equivalent ratio: 3 out of how many. The ratio 6 out of 10,000 can be reduced (by dividing both members by 2) to 3 out of 5,000.


Difficulty: Medium
Question Type: Standard Multiple Choice