Ronald Fast Food randomly selected 20% of locations and asked the manager about the most popular meat. Of the locations surveyed, beef is the most popular meat at 4 locations. Based on the data, what is the most reasonable estimate of the number of Ronald Fast Food locations where the most popular meat is beef?
Q. Ronald Fast Food randomly selected 20% of locations and asked the manager about the most popular meat. Of the locations surveyed, beef is the most popular meat at 4 locations. Based on the data, what is the most reasonable estimate of the number of Ronald Fast Food locations where the most popular meat is beef?
Understand Given Information: Understand the given information and what is being asked.We know that 20% of the locations were surveyed, and at 4 of those locations, beef is the most popular meat. We need to estimate the total number of locations where beef is the most popular meat.
Set Up Proportion: Set up the proportion to find the total number of locations.If 4 locations represent 20% of the total locations, we can set up a proportion where 4 is to 20% as the total number of locations where beef is popular (let's call this number x) is to 100%.20%4=100%x
Solve for x: Solve the proportion for x.Cross-multiply to solve for x.4×100%=x×20%400%=20x
Isolate x: Divide both sides by 20 to isolate x.20400%=2020x20=x
More problems from Estimate population size using proportions