Question

100 people went to a picnic. 32 people got sick with food poisoning. The Public HealthDepartment narrowed it down to either the chicken salad or the cream pie. They determined that80 people ate chicken salad, 75 people ate cream pie, 33 people ate chicken salad cream pie anddid not get sick, 5 ate neither food and did not get sick, 40% of the people who ate chicken saladgot sick, and 36% of the people who are cream pie got sick. Was it the chicken salad or thecream pie

Answer 1

It was the chicken salad.

Explanation:

If you multiply each amount of people that ate one or the other and how many got sick, you get:

Chicken salad: 32

Cream pie: 27

And 32 people got sick so it must be the chicken salad.