Question

If there are 28 students in your class, about how many would say cherry popsicles are their favorite?

Lime 20%
Orange 35%
Cherry 40%
Rainbow 5%

Answer 1

`11`

Explanation:

Note that "percent" means "per-hundred".

So to get the "per-twenty-eight" figure from `40%`, we need to multiply by `28` and divide by `100`...

`(40*28)/100 = 1120/100 = 11.2`

Since the number of students is an integer, we would expect `11` students to favour cherry.