On a Certain Day, a Cheese Packaging Facility Packaged 550

question 96

Multiple Choice

On a certain day, a cheese packaging facility packaged 550 units of mozzarella cheese. Some of these packages had major flaws, some had minor flaws, and some had both major andminor flaws. The following table presents the results.
$\begin{array}{ccc}\hline & \text { Minor Flaw } & \text { No Minor Flaw } \\\hline \text { Major Flaw } & 23 & 27 \\\text { No Major Flaw } & 59 & 441 \\\hline\end{array}$
Find the probability that randomly chosen cheese package has a minor flaw.

• A) 0.186
• B) 0.149
• C) 0.107
• D) 0.091

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Definitions:

Amylase

Amylase is an enzyme produced mainly by the pancreas and salivary glands that helps in the digestion of carbohydrates by breaking down starches into sugars.

Maltose

A disaccharide sugar produced from the enzymatic breakdown of starch that consists of two glucose units.

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The surface or material on or in which an organism, enzyme, or cell lives or acts, often referring to the substance upon which an enzyme acts.

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A process that involves rearrangement of the molecular or ionic structure of a substance, as opposed to a change in physical form or a nuclear reaction.