Question

Eighty percent of students in your school own a bike. Of a sample of students in your school, the ratio of students who own a bike to students who do not own a bike is 8 : 2. Does the sample closely estimate the percentage of students in your school who own a bike?

Answer 1

Yes, the sample closely estimates the percentage of students in the school.

Explanation:

Given that:

Percentage of students in school who own a bike = 80%

Ratio of students who own a bike to students who do not own a bike = 8 : 2

To find:

Whether the sample closely estimates the percentage of students who own a bike ?

Solution:

First of all, let us convert the ratio in percentage form.

Percentage formula is given as follows:

`(Favorable\ cases)/(Total\ Number\ of\ cases)* 100`

Here,the ratio given is 8:2.

Let number of students who ride bike =
`8x`

Let number of students who do not ride bike =
`2x`

Total number of students =
`10x`

So, the percentage of students who ride a bike:

`(8x)/(10x)* 100 = \bold{80\%}`

So, the sample percentage is equal to the percentage of students in school who own a bike.

Therefore, the sample closely estimates the percentage of students who own a bike.