SOLUTION: students preferred spaghetti to pizza 5:15.  If 100 students were surveyed, how many students liked spaghetti?
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Question 308637:  students preferred spaghetti to pizza 5:15.  If 100 students were surveyed, how many students liked spaghetti? 
Answer by mananth(16946)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
 Spaghetti : pizza = 5:15
5/20 like spaghetti  
5/20 * 100 = 25 like  spaghetti
75 prefer pizza 
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