Question

Sally is planning the school picnic and needs to decide what food vendor to use. She asks 500 students whether they would rather have a taco truck or a fruit smoothie cart. The results of the survey are shown in the table.What is the relative frequency of eight graders who want fruit smothies?A. 0.17B. 0.03C.0.02D.0.48

Answer 1

We need to find the relative frequency of the eighth-graders who chose the fruit smoothies.

To find a relative frequency we need to divide the number of people from eight grade who chose fruit smoothies, shown in the following image:

Divide that number by the total number of people in eighth grade:

Thus, we get the following:

$\text{relative frequency=}\frac{Number\text{ of eighth graders who want smoothies}}{\text{Total number of eighth graders}}$

Substituting our values:

$\text{relative frequency=}\frac{17}{250}$

Solving the division:

$\text{relative frequency =}0.068$