The subcommittee needs to contain 1 out of 3 freshmen, 1 out of 4 sophomores, 1 out of 5 juniors and 1 out of 2 seniors. Assuming order is not important, the number of possibilities to pick the subcommittee members is given by:
She is correct because they need to find how much is the discounted price, which is 3. So to see what percentage it is, they need to see how much 3 is worth in comparison to 15. If we spilt 15 into 5 parts to make every part worth 20%, the answer would be 3. Thus Arianna is correct.
Answer: Mary wanted to bake 7 cakes. She know she needs 2/5 cup of olive oil for each cake so she decides to figure this out by multiplying by hand 2/5 x 7. How much olive oil will she need?