A clothing company took a random sample of its T-shirt sales and found that 52 of the T-shirts sold in the sample were size medium. If the sample is representative of all T-shirts sold by the company, approximately how many of the 25,448 T-shirts sold were size medium?Choose 1 answer:(A) 5,090(B) 10,180(C) 15,270
Q. A clothing company took a random sample of its T-shirt sales and found that 52 of the T-shirts sold in the sample were size medium. If the sample is representative of all T-shirts sold by the company, approximately how many of the 25,448 T-shirts sold were size medium?Choose 1 answer:(A) 5,090(B) 10,180(C) 15,270
Calculate medium T-shirts sold: Calculate the number of medium T-shirts sold.To find out how many T-shirts were size medium, multiply the total number of T-shirts sold by the fraction that represents the medium size T-shirts.(52)×25,448=10,179.2
Round to whole number: Round to the nearest whole number.Since we cannot sell a fraction of a T-shirt, we round the number to the nearest whole number.10,179.2 rounds to 10,179.
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