Question

At Westlake High School, there are 420 students who eat lunch. The school lunch line always offers pizza on Friday's. If 65% of the students purchase pizza on Friday, then how many pizza lunches were purchased?



There were ________ pizza lunches purchased.

Answer 1

Answer: 273

Step-by-step explanation:

To find the number of pizza lunches ordered, you need to know the number of students in the school (420) and the percent who bought pizzas (65%)

To find the number of pizza lunches, multiply the percentage by the total number

Since 65% of 420 students bought pizza, 0.65 * 420 pizza lunches were purchased

0.65 * 420 = 273

Answer 2

Answer:

There were 273 pizza lunches purchased.

Step-by-step explanation:

$\frac{420}{100} = 4.2 \\ 1\% = 4.2 \\ 65\% = 4.2 \times 65 \\ \: \: \: \: \: \: \: \: \: \: \: \: \: = 273$