Question

There are 4 lunch choices in a school cafeteria: Salad, Pizza, Spaghetti, and Sub Sandwiches. The percentage of students that chose salad is 15%. If 45 students chose salad, what is the total number of students that ate lunch

Answer 1

Answer:

The total number of students that ate lunch are 300 .

Step-by-step explanation:

Formula

$Percentage = \frac{Part\ value\times 100}{Total\ value}$

As given

There are 4 lunch choices in a school cafeteria: Salad, Pizza, Spaghetti, and Sub Sandwiches.

The percentage of students that chose salad is 15%.

If 45 students chose salad.

Here

Percentage = 15%

Part value = 45

Put in the formula

$15 = \frac{45\times 100}{Total\ value}$

$Total\ value= \frac{4500}{15}$

$Total\ value= 300$

Therefore  the total number of students that ate lunch are 300 .

Answer 2

45/x / 15/100 = 4500 divided by 15x = 300