Question

A local grocery store surveys a random sample of 500 visitors. Of those visitors, 340 stopped in the fruit department. Based on this information, about how many people out of 2,500 visitors to the grocery store stopped in the fruit department?

Answer 1

For 500 visitors , 340 stopped in the fruit department . Base on this information the number of visitor that will stop in the fruit department after having a total visitor of 2500 can be computed below

`\begin{gathered} 500\text{ visitors = 340} \\ 2500\text{ visitors=?} \\ \text{cross multiply} \\ \text{ number stopped in the fruit department=}(2500*340)/(500)=(850000)/(500)=1700 \end{gathered}`

Number that stopped in the fruit department for 2500 visitors = 1700