Question

Peyton is collecting data on the lunch habits of students at Hyattsville Middle School. In one class, 14 students bring lunch from home, and 20 buy a school lunch. Hyattsville Middle School has 1700 students. From the data collected, how many students would Peyton predict would buy a school lunch? *

Answer 1

Answer: Around 1000 students would buy a school lunch.

Explanation:

We know that in one class, 14 students bring lunch from home, and 20 buy lunch in the school. This will be our sample.

In total we have 20 + 14 = 34 students, this will be our 100%.

The percentage of students that bring lunch from home can be estimated as the quotient between the number of students that bring lunch from home and the total number of students, times 100%.

p1 = (14/34)*100% = 41.18%

And the percentage of students that buy lunch at school can be computed in the same way:

p2= (20/34)*100% = 58.82%

Then, out of the 1700 students in middle school, we can estimate that around 58.82% of them will buy lunch in the school.

Then the exact number will be:

N = (58.82%/100%)*1700 = 1000

Around 1000 students would buy a school lunch.