Question

Visitors to a cinematic are either children, adults or pensioners. Ratio of children to adult visitors is 1:2 Ratio of adults to pensioners is 3:4 A stratified sample of 85 is to be taken from the cinema visitors. How many pensioners should there be in the sample?

Answer 1

Ratio of children, adults and pensioners is 1 : 2 : 8/3 = 3 : 6 : 8.

Let, 3x is number of children.

So, 6x is number of adults and 8x is number of pensioners.

Now,

3x + 6x + 8x = 85

17x = 85

x = 5

Therefore, number of pensioners are 8×5 = 40.

Hence, this is the required solution.