Question

Carl takes a random sample of 100 students in his school and find a 72% of the sample prefers pizza over burgers. There are 1500 students in the school. Based on the sample proportion how many students in the school would be expected to prefer pizza over burgers?

72
100
1080
1500

Answer 1

it would be 1080

Explanation:

Answer 2

You would apply the 72% to the 1500.
0.72 × 1500 = 1080.
Therefore approximately 1080 students in the school prefer pizza over burgers.