Bayview middle school wants to change their schools mascot. they came up with 5 mascot names and surveyed a group of random students to determined their favorite results are shown in the table below
pie. frequency
penguins. 5
marlins. 12
seahawks. 9
dolphins. 14
sharks. 20
what percent favor the Marlins as their new mascot?
First step is counting all of the people up, I came up with 60. Then we have to construct our equation(12/60). Then you multiply it by 100. What you get is the percentage, 120/6 is 20. So the answer is 20%.