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In a sample of 400 customers at a fast-food restaurant, it was

determined that 156 customers ordered a salad. The restaurant
typically has 1,200 customers in a day. Predict how many of these
customers will order a salad.

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If you put them into to proportion
156/400 and then put a variable for the unknown x/1200
1200 divided by 400 = 3
156 times 3 = 468
468 order salad out of 1200
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