Question

The student council at Woodland middle school is planning a field trip. They pulled it randomly selected teachers and students and asked what they want to eat for lunch. Results are shown in the table below.

Answer 1

I may be the second one because the first one says 19 percent of the people who polled that are teachers prefer burgers. And the second one says 19 percent of the teachers polled prefer burgers, so I think it is the second answer.

Answer 2

Explanation:

First question: 19% of those who prefered burgers were teachers. This is true. We focus on the "Burgers" column and ignore the rest of the table.

Second question: 19% of the teachers polled prefered burgers. This is false. If we look at the "teachers" line, we see that 6 teachers prefered pizza and 4 prefered burgers. The percentage of teachers prefering burgers was 4 / (4+6), or 4/10, or 40%.

Third question (impossible to read): 19% of the people polled prefer ..... .

False. That 19% does not pertain to the entire group of people polled.