If 63 people at the theatre preferred chocolate ice cream, then the number of the people in the theatre will be 175.
What is the percentage?
The amount of something is expressed as if it is a part of the total which is a hundred. The ratio can be expressed as a fraction of 100. The word percent means per 100. It is represented by the symbol ‘%’.
In a survey, 36% of people at a movie theatre said they preferred chocolate ice cream to other flavors.
If 63 people at the theatre preferred chocolate ice cream, then the number of the people in the theatre will be
Let x be the number of the people in the theatre. Then we have
[tex]\begin{aligned} 36\% &= \dfrac{63}{x} \times 100\\\\0.36 &= \dfrac{63}{x} \\\\x &= \dfrac{63}{0.36} \\\\x &= 175 \end{aligned}[/tex]
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