SOLUTION: 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 su
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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?
You can put this solution on YOUR website! (80)/(15)
Reduce the expression (80)/(15) by removing a factor of 5 from the numerator and denominator.
(16)/(3)
The approximate value of (80)/(15) is 5.33.
5.33 nuber of students who bought
Since 80 goes into 1600 20 times,
multiply 20 times 5.33
20*5.33
Multiply 20 by 5.33 to get 106.6.
106.6
Rounded up, about 107 students would buy the product.
