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Middle School Madness - December 05, 2022
The wireless phone company has 25 computer-controlled systems to handle wireless phone calls in a region. Each system handles 700,000 calls an hour. In each system, 95% of the calls are not dropped. How many dropped calls occur in one 24 hour period in this region assuming each of the 25 systems are running at maximum capacity at all times?
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