Question

A survey about student's favorite colors was given andthe results are shown in the circle graph below.Yellow 20%Pink?Green 60%There are a total of 200 students. How many morestudents chose pink than yellow as their favorite color?

Answer 1

20% (40 people)

1) Considering that the sum of these three choices to make this 100% can be written as:

60%

20%

x =20%

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100%

x = 20%

2) Now let's find out the number that's equivalent to 20% of 200

Rewrite 20% as 0.2

Multiply it by 200

0.2 x 200 = 40

3) Hence, the number of students who chose pink as their favorite color is 40