Question

i am having trouble understanding how to figure out how to do interpreting data for 8th grade pre alg.

Answer 1

question??

Answer 2

a surey of 200 randomly selected consumersfinds that 75 consumers perfer brand a dtergent.predict how mant consumers in a town of 3000 perfer brand detergent.

Answer 3

75 yes of 200 total
How many yes (x?) out of 3000

Answer 4

how did you get that answer?

Answer 5

You remember similar triangles in geometry? 5/7=x/10? Like that.

Answer 6

no dont remeber...........never been in geomerty

Answer 7

You have 75 consumers out of 200, that can be written as 75/200
You want to know, let's call it x, out of 3000 that can be written as x/3000
The two are similar so you can set them equal and solve for x
x/3000=75/200

Answer 8

ohhh okay thank you.