Question

use the circle graph show below to answer the question a pie chart labeled favorite sports to watch is divided into into three portions football represents 42 percent baseball represents 33 percent and soccer represents 25 percent if 210 people said football was their favorite sport to watch how many people were surveyed?

Answer 1

From the pie chart described, the percent of people that responded that football was their favorite sport to watch is 42% which represents 210 of the people surveyed.

Let the number of people surveyed be x, then

$42%\ of\ x=210 \\ \\ \Rightarrow0.42x=210 \\ \\ \Rightarrow x= \frac{210}{0.42} =500$

Therefore, the number of people surveyed is 500 people.