Question

A college cafeteria is looking for a new dessert to offer its 5,000 students. The table shows the preference of 225 students.

Ice Cream Candy Cake Pie Cookies
81 9 72 36 27


Which statement is the best prediction about the slices of pie the college will need?
The college will have about 1,800 students who prefer pie.
The college will have about 800 students who prefer pie.
The college will have about 600 students who prefer pie.
The college will have about 189 students who prefer pie.

Answer 1

I can conclude that the best option is B, "The college will have about 800 students who prefer pie".

We have the given expression, a college cafeteria is looking for a new dessert to offer its 5,000 students.

Now, there are 5000 students and just 225 samples. So, we divide the number of students by the amount of samples, so 5000/225 = 22.22.

As we see, 36 students prefer pie.

So we multiply this by our answer, so 22.22 x 36 = 799.92.

This rounds to 800, so the closest and correct option is B.

The college is required to make 800 pies.

Hope this helped :)