Question

A music downloading website reports that 5 out of every 7 songs downloaded are classified as pop

music. According to this information, predict how many of the next 500 songs downloaded will be pop
songs. Round your answer to the nearest whole number.

Answer 1

357 songs were pop

Explanation:

5 out of every 7 songs are pop

mathematically =5/7 is pop

.

therefore 5/7 of 500

=5/7×500

=357.143

to the nearest whole number = 357