Question

Over the span of a month a school tracks student choices at lunch. They find that 56% of alls students buy milk with lunch and 32% buy a piece of fruit. If 22% of all students buy both milk and fruit what percentage of students buy neither?

1) 28% 2) 34% 3) 42% 4) 46%

Answer 1

See a solution process below:

Explanation:

Because of the information in the problem we can see that:

`56% + 32% = 88%` Buy Milk and Fruit.

However, because 22% by both we need to subtract this from the number giving:

`88% - 22% = 66%` of the students buy Milk and/or Fruit.

This means:

`100% - 66% = 34%` buy neither.