Question

A survey of 15 students revealed that 9 students brought their lunch from home, and 6 students bought their lunch in the cafeteria. Based on this information, If there are 500 students in the school, how many students could be expected to bring their lunch?​

Answer 1

500 divided by 15 to get the number of students per student surveyed is 33.33 times 9(the number of students who brought their lunch)

=300 students

Answer 2

We can use a proportion to estimate the number of students who could be expected to bring their lunch:

9 out of 15 students brought their lunch from home.

Let x be the number of students in the school who bring their lunch from home.

So we can set up the proportion:

9/15 = x/500

We can solve for x by cross-multiplying:

9 * 500 = 15x

x = (9 * 500) / 15

x = 300

Therefore, we can expect that 300 out of 500 students in the school bring their lunch from home.