ShmoopTube

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Here’s your shmoop du jour...

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Lavenia invited some people over to watch sports.

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She wasn’t anticipating a turn-out of 400 people though. MAN, she has a lot of friends.

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She took a poll that asked all 400 people what their favorite sport to watch on tv was.

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The results are displayed in the graph below. 

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One hundred twenty of those who were asked preferred… what sport?

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And here are the potential answers…

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Can we read a pretty colored pie chart? You bet.

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The question asks for a percentage – it’s asking ‘what is 120 divided by the total of 400’?

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A shame it doesn’t just come out and SAY that. Guess it has transparency issues.

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Anyway, when we do the math we get 12 over 40 or 6 over 20 or 3 over 10… which is 0.3.

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It's easy to convert this into a percentage.

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All we have to do is multiply it by 10 and we see that it’s 30%.

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So… which two sports combined give us a total of 30%?

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Well, hockey and baseball are both 15%, so the answer is D.

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