SOLUTION: if 7 out of 100 people prefer pizza to mac & cheese, how many students in a school of 1,840 students prefer mac & cheese

Question 266093: if 7 out of 100 people prefer pizza to mac & cheese, how many students in a school of 1,840 students prefer mac & cheese
Answer by roseo(33) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
A couple of different ways to do this problem. First because you have 7 out of 100 for those who prefer pizza we could say 7% prefer pizza. Then 93% prefer mac and cheese. So if we have 1840 students, take 93% of 1840 or .93*1840 or 1711.2 or 1711 students prefer mac and cheese
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