the plant produces 1200 packages of grapes. an inspector randomly chooses 24 packages and discovers that 8 of the packages have broken seals. how many of the 1200 packages of grapes would you expect to have broken seals?
If 8 of the 24 have broken seals, then we would expect that 1/3 of the packages would have broken seals.....so...
1/3 x 1200 = 400 packages