Question

Daniel surveyed a random sample of 100 students from his middle school to learn more about what type of school lunches are preferred. The table below shows the result of the survey: Hamburgers Spaghetti Pizza Sample #1 13 43 44 Sample #2 20 41 39 Which of the following inferences can be made based on the data?

Pizza is the most preferred lunch.
Spaghetti and pizza are preferred almost equally.
Hamburgers are two times more popular than pizza.
Hamburgers are two times more popular than spaghetti.

Answer 1

d

Explanation:

Answer 2

Spaghetti and Pizza are preferred almost equally.

Explanation:

Daniel surveyed a random sample of 100 students from his middle school to learn more about what type of school lunches are preferred based on his observation the table of the following is given as:

Hamburgers Spaghetti Pizza

Sample 1: 13 43 44

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Sample 2: 20 41 39

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Total: 33 84 83

By looking at the table we see that the total number of spaghetti and Pizza chosen are almost equal as:

Total number of Spaghetti preferred=84.

and Total number of Pizza preferred=83.