Question

Carl takes a random sample of 100 students in his school and finds that 72% of the sample prefers pizza over burgers. There are 1,500 students in the school. Based on the sample proportion, how many students in the school would be expected to prefer pizza over burgers? (5 points)


72

100

1,080

1,500

Answer 1

Based on the sample proportion, we can expect that 72% of the 1,500 students in the school would prefer pizza over burgers.

1,500 students * 0.72 = 1,080 students

Therefore, we would expect 1,080 students in the school to prefer pizza over burgers.