Question

Latoya asked 10 students how many courses they have taken so far at her college. Here is the list of answers: 10, 26, 8, 22, 16, 23, 20, 8, 13, 18. What is the percentage of these students who have taken fewer than 15 courses?

A. 20%
B. 30%
C. 40%
D. 50%

Answer 1

After counting the number of students who have taken fewer than 15 courses from the list, which totals four students, we find that 40% of the students surveyed have taken fewer than 15 courses so far.

Step-by-step explanation:

To determine what percentage of these students have taken fewer than 15 courses so far, we need to count how many students have taken less than that number of courses based on the list provided by Latoya. The list of courses taken is: 10, 26, 8, 22, 16, 23, 20, 8, 13, 18. From this list, the numbers that are fewer than 15 are 10, 8, 8, and 13. That gives us a total of four students.

To find the percentage, we divide the number of such students (who have taken fewer than 15 courses) by the total number of students surveyed and then multiply by 100. So, the calculation is (4 / 10) * 100, which equals 40%. Therefore, 40% of the students surveyed by Latoya have taken fewer than 15 courses.