Question

what's wrong? In an American Optometric Association survey 1009 adults were randomly selected and asked to identify what they worry most about losing 51% of the respondents chose "vision" What's wrong here?

Answer 1

The problem with the question is that 51% of 1009 adults could not have said that their biggest fear was losing vision. The issue with 51% of 1009 is that you wont be left with a whole number, but a decimal instead. You cant have a decimal of a person.

Answer 2

The percent of adults who were worry about losing "vision" can not be 51%.

Explanation:

In the given problem it is given that 51% of 1009 adults were worry about losing "vision".

Total number of persons = 1009

51% of 1009 is

`1009* (51)/(100)=514.59`

It means 514.59 adults were worry about losing "vision", which is incorrect because the number of persons can not be a fraction or decimal value.

Therefore, the percent of adults who were worry about losing "vision" can not be 51%.