A group of students surveyed chose baseball and soccer as their favorite sports in a ratio of 3:8.

Question

a. If 132 students were surveyed, find the number of students that chose soccer as their favorite sport.

Answer 1

What you'll do is add 3 and 8 to get the total:
3 + 8 = 11
Now we divide the total number of students by 11:
132/11 = 12 (this is the multiplier for 3 and 8)
Therefore,
3 * 12 = 36 students (prefer baseball)
8 * 12 = 96 students (prefer soccer)

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