Problema Solution

barbara is chosen to inspect pencil sharpeners to make sure they work. for each 72 she inspects she finds 4 that are bad. if barbara finds 16 bad pencil sharpeners, how many are good?

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Number of pencils in 16 bad pencils =(16/4)*72

=288.

Number of good pencils =288-16.

=272.