First mutiply your object of the question which is 9 times 16 then make sure you have the right answer then divide it by 8 and 144 the answer you got, and you get 18
.....Jeremy did not make a good inference. The ratio is not in proportion to 2/15. The correct inference would be about 26 students who did not read any books in July. The sample might be biased since it was limited to those at the pool....