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) About Me  (Show Source):
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Spaghetti : pizza = 5:15
5/20 like spaghetti
5/20 * 100 = 25 like spaghetti
75 prefer pizza