Question

chocolate chip: 8peanut butter: 5oatmeal: 3sugar: 4which shows the part of students whose favorite cookie is peanut butter?answer can be in fractions or decimal

Answer 1

in this problem, we are given a poll of students and their favorite cookies:

8 students - chocolate chip

5 students - peanut butter

3 student - oatmeal

4 students - sugar

We want to know what part of students have peanut butter as their favorite.

First, let's figure out how many students we have in total:

`8+5+3+4=20`

Now that we know how many students there are, we can set up our fraction in the following format:

`(part)/(whole)=\frac{\text{ peanut butter students}}{\text{ total students}}`

So, that gives us:

`(5)/(20)`

This fraction can be reduced by dividing 5 from the numerator and denominator:

`(5/5)/(20/5)=(1)/(4)`

So, one fourth (1/4) of the students like peanut butter cookies the best.