Question

heather surveyed people in the mall concerning their cookie preference . She found that 80% of the people favored chocolate chip cookie and the rest preferred sugar cookies. based on these results ,how many people out of 1,000 can be expected to prefer sugar cookies ?

Answer 1

Hello!

You have to find what 20% of 1,000 is

You can do this by converting 20% into a decimal and multiplying

20% as a decimal is 0.20

1,000 * 0.20 = 200

The answer is 200

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