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The cafeteria at Midtown Middle School surveyed 575 students about their favorite food. Find the number of students that responded for each of the following. Show your work.

chicken: 8%
salad: 20%
burgers: 16%
fruit:24%

User Enkara
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Heya someone else already explained but I’ll give it a go too! :) so 575 is 100%
Therefore when
575 —> 100%
X—> 8%
Then you cross multiply, 100x= 575x8
X= (575x8)/100.
That’s the mount of students for chicken :) continue this system to get the other values, hope this helped <3
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Answer:

chicken:46

salad: 115

burgers: 92

fruit:138

Explanation:

chicken: 575*8%=46

salad: 575*20%=115

burgers: 575* 16% =92

fruit:575*24%=138

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