Question

6. Pine Hill Middle School has 300 students.

In Zoey's class, 2 out of 5 students belong
to a club. How many students at the
school would you expect belong to a club?
ctica

Answer 1

120 students

Explanation:

The ratio of students in Zoey's class who belong to a club to the total number of students in her class is 2 to 5.

We can set up a proportion to find out how many students in the whole school we would expect to belong to a club:

`\sf (2)/(5 )= (x)/(300)`

Cross multiplying gives us:

`\sf 2 * 300 = 5x`

`\sf 600 = 5x`

Dividing both sides by 5.

`\sf x = 120`

Therefore, we would expect 120 students at the school to belong to a club.