Question

A principal randomly chose 40 students from grade 7. Of these students, 9 were wearing watches. Based on this information, what is the most reasonable prediction of the number of students wearing watches in a group of 480 students from grade 7?

Answer 1

108 students

Explanation:

We can just multiply each value by a k value, or a constant of variation, since we would expect them to be proportional. To find it, we take our two known variables and divide them. 480/40 = 12. Now we multiply that number by 9 to find the projected amount of students wearing watches in the whole grade. 12*9 = 108.