Question

22 out of a sample of 75 people at a shopping mall prefer pepperoni pizza over cheese pizza. If there are 1,225 people at the mall, how many should prefer pepperoni pizza?

Answer 1

What don't you understand about this problem?

Answer 2

Im EXTREMELY bad at word problems :(

Answer 3

Ah, will it help if I put it in a numerical format? What this question is asking is basically this: what is x in:
\[\frac{ 22 }{75 } = \frac{ x }{ 1225 }\]