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?72

100

1,080

1,500

Answer 1

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

Number of students that prefer pizza over burgers = 0.72 * 1,500 = 1,080

Therefore, 1,080 students in the school would be expected to prefer pizza over burgers.