Question

A survey of 800 college seniors resulted in the following crosstabulation regarding their undergraduate major and whether or not they plan to go to graduate school. Undergraduate Major Graduate School Business Engineering Others Total Yes 70 84 126 280 No 182 208 130 520 Total 252 292 256 800 Of those students who are majoring in business, what percentage plans to go to graduate school?a. 40.4.b. 10.5.c. 28.8.d. 30.0.

Answer 1

Using the percentage concept, it is found that of those students who are majoring in business, the percentage plans to go to graduate school is given by:

c. 28.8.

What is a percentage?

The percentage of an amount a over a total amount b is given by a multiplied by 100% and divided by b, that is:

$P = \frac{a}{b} \times 100\%$

In this problem, there are 252 students majoring is business, and of those, 70 plan to go to graduate school, hence the percentage is given by:

$P = \frac{70}{252} \times 100\% = 28.8\%$

Hence option C is correct.

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