Question

The restaurant is trying out a new menu. They asked 35 people if they liked the changes and 29 said they did. The restaurant had 297 customers that day. About how many liked the new menu?

Answer 1

246 customers

Explanation:

Your success rate is `29/35` (people liked your new menu).

This ratio is `0.82856`

However, there are actually 297 customers. How many of them liked new menu?

`=297*0.82856`

`=246`

246 customers liked the new menü.

Your answer is 246.

Answer 2

About `250` people.

Explanation:

The fact that `29 " out of "35` customers liked the menu means that you know what fraction of a small sample of customers liked it.

You would expect that about the same fraction of a large group of people would also like the menu.

Find `29/35 " of " 297`

`= 246.0857...` people

'About', means we do not expect an accurate exact answer.
It would be close enough to say

about `246` people,

Even an answer of `250` would be close enough.