An egg supplier to a restaurant sends a daily shipment of 500 eggs. Previous records show that 4% of these eggs arrive damaged to the restaurant. Let X = the number of eggs that arrive damaged on a randomly selected day

Answer: 500 (0.04) = x

20 damaged eggs per day

Step-by-step explanation:

Hi, assuming that the question is to calculate the number of damaged eggs per day and write the equaton, to answer this we simply have to multiply the number of eggs in the daily shipment (500) by the percentage of damaged eggs estimated in decimal form.

Percentage: 4% = 4/100 = 0.04 (decimal form)

So, mathematically speaking:

500 (0.04) = x (number of damaged eggs per day)

Solving:

500 x 0.04 = 20 damaged eggs