Question

Higher Order Thinking Representatives for Conch Elementary School are voting on a school mascot. Their choices are in the table. Sidney says that (3)/(4) of the representatives wanted either Gators or Marlins. Is Sidney correct? Justify your response using whole number and fraction multiplication.

Answer 1

Without the total number of representatives or the number that voted for Gators and Marlins, it's impossible to confirm Sidney's claim. Normally, to verify, one would multiply the total number of representatives by (3)/(4) and compare the result to the sum of representatives preferring Gators and Marlins.

Step-by-step explanation:

To determine whether Sidney is correct about (3)/(4) of the representatives wanting either Gators or Marlins as the school mascot, we first need the total number of representatives. As the provided data is missing, we cannot perform the calculation using whole number and fraction multiplication. To figure this out typically, you would need to multiply the total number of representatives by (3)/(4) and see if the product is the sum of the number of representatives who chose Gators and Marlins.

For example, if there were 100 representatives, (3)/(4) of that would be 75. If the number of representatives that chose Gators and Marlins combined equals 75, then Sidney's statement is correct.