document.write( "Question 346940: A school club is having a tamale sale and the total number of students in the school is 1600. One day during lunch in an effort to figure out how many tamales to make they did a survey and out of 80 students asked 15 said that they would definitly buy a tamale. How many tamales should the club expect to sell?
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Algebra.Com's Answer #248075 by haileytucki(390)![]() ![]() You can put this solution on YOUR website! (80)/(15)\r \n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "Reduce the expression (80)/(15) by removing a factor of 5 from the numerator and denominator. \n" ); document.write( "(16)/(3)\r \n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "The approximate value of (80)/(15) is 5.33. \n" ); document.write( "5.33 nuber of students who bought\r \n" ); document.write( " \n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "Since 80 goes into 1600 20 times, \n" ); document.write( "multiply 20 times 5.33\r \n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "20*5.33\r \n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "Multiply 20 by 5.33 to get 106.6. \n" ); document.write( "106.6\r \n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "Rounded up, about 107 students would buy the product. \n" ); document.write( " |