SOLUTION: A teacher recently gave her 50 algebra students a 5-question quiz. The table shows the number of students who answered each question correctly Question #1 has 45 correct answers

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Question 1142202: A teacher recently gave her 50 algebra students a 5-question quiz. The table shows the number of students who answered each question correctly
Question #1 has 45 correct answers
Question #2 has 15 correct answers
Question #3 has 32 correct answers
Question #4 has 40 correct answers
Question #5 has 29 correct answers
Using the data, how many of the 120 algebra students at the school who are taught algebra by other teachers would you expect to answer Question 3 correctly?

Answer by addingup(3677) About Me  (Show Source):
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32/50 = 0.64 = 64%
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120 x 0.64 = 76.8
Because we can't split a student to get 0.8, we have to use whole numbers, therefore the answer is: I would expect 76 students to answer Question 3 correctly.