Question

You ask 125 randomly chosen students to name their favorite food. There are 1500 students in the school. Predict the number of students in the school whose favorite food is pizza. 58 of the 125 students likes pizza.

Answer 1

Answer:

The number of students who likes pizza is 696 out of 1500.

Step-by-step explanation:

It is given that 58 of the 125 students likes pizza. The fraction of students who likes pizza and total students is $\frac{58}{125}$.

Let the number of students out of 1500 who likes pizza be x. The fraction of students who likes pizza and total students is $\frac{x}{1500}$.

Both fractions will be equivalent.

$\frac{58}{125}=\frac{x}{1500}$

$\frac{58}{125} \times 1500=x$

$58\times 12=x$

$x=696$

Therefore, the number of students who likes pizza is 696 out of 1500.

Answer 2

You need to find the percent of the 125 surveyed students to find the number of estimated students that like pizza.

58/125 = .464 or 46.4%

1500*.464 = 696 students like pizza.

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