Question

Claire is in charge of the 7th grade picnic and needs to order the food for the90 students attending. She surveys a sample population of 18 students. Tenstudents chose hamburgers, 7 chose hot dogs, and 1 chose a veggie burger.a. Make a conjecture about how many students at the picnic will chooseeach type of food.

Answer 1

The survey is of 18 students, but in reality there are 90 students in total, so what we will do is an approximate to know the number of types of food in total:

Hamburgers:

`10\cdot(90)/(18)=\text{ }50`

therefore 50 hamburgers were ordered

Hot dogs:

`7\cdot(90)/(18)=35`

therefore 35 hot dogs were ordered

Veggie burger:

`\begin{gathered} 1\cdot(90)/(18)\text{ = 5} \\ \end{gathered}`

therefore 5 veggie burger were ordered