Question

Meg conducted a survey of four school cafeterias to find the number of students who like sandwiches for lunch. The results of her survey are recorded in the table below:

Answer 1

Which school has the greatest percentage of students who like sandwiches for lunch?
School A
School B
School C
School D

Answer 2

ok ill walk you through this

Answer 3

ok

Answer 4

So in school A, 12/38 students like sandwiches.
List the same thing for the rest of the schools.

Answer 5

ok

Answer 6

school b is 9/48

Answer 7

school c is 10/26

Answer 8

and School d is 8/24

Answer 9

so all these fractions have to be converted to percentages. you know how to do that?

Answer 10

yeah mate

Answer 11

ok i will do school A and B and you do C and D ok?

Answer 12

ok

Answer 13

i got 3 for D

Answer 14

School A is 32%
School B is 19%

Answer 15

ok how you do that

Answer 16

i got whole numbers

Answer 17

lol ok so you divide the top number by the bottom number of the fraction.
you can use a calculator.

Answer 18

so since A is 12/38, i divided 12 by 38
and i got 0.315789

Answer 19

i moved the decimal which is this>> .
two spaces to the right. so it landed right after the 1.
your number is now 31.5789
but we cant use that. so we round up?

Answer 20

you know how to round?

Answer 21

so i rounded that up to 32. so i got 32%. get it?

Answer 22

ah i get it thanks man