Question

Record: 0/3 Score: o Penalty: 1Jacob owns a small business selling bagels. He knows that in the last week 65 customers paid cash, 26 customers used a debit card, and 8 customers used a credit card. If next week, he is expecting 600 customers, about how many would you expect to pay with a credit card?Round your answer to the nearest whole number.

Answer 1

In order to estimate the number of customers paying with a credit card, first let's calculate the total number of customers in the last week:

`65+26+8=99`

Now, to do the estimate, we can use the following rule of three:

`\begin{gathered} \text{total customers}\to\text{ credit card} \\ 99\to8 \\ 600\to x \end{gathered}`

Let's write the following proportion and solve it for x:

`\begin{gathered} (99)/(600)=(8)/(x) \\ x\cdot99=600\cdot8 \\ x=(600\cdot8)/(99) \\ x=48.48 \end{gathered}`

Therefore we can estimate that 48 customers will use credit card.