Question

Sally surveyed 60 classmates about their favorite sport.The results are shown in the circle graph. How many ofstudents chose volleyball as their favorite sport?Students Favorite SportsVolleyballBasketball20%Tennis20%Soccer30%Badmitten10%

Answer 1

Amanda, this is the solution:

Step 1: We need to calculate the percentage of students surveyed that chose voleyball as their favorite sport. We will subtract the percentages given from 100, that is the total.

• Voleyball percentage = 100 - 30 (Soccer) - 20 (Basketball) - 20 (Tennis) - 10 (Badminton)

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• Voleyball percentage = 100 - 80

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• Voleyball percentage = 20

Step 2: Now that we know that 20% of the students surveyed chose voleyball as their favorite sport, we will calculate the number of students that correspond to this percentage.

• Number of students = Total students surveyed * Voleyball percentage

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• Number of students = 60 * 20%

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• Number of students = 60 * 0.2

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• Number of students = 12