Question

The Student Council at Woodlands Middle School is planning a field trip.

They polled randomly selected teachers and students and asked whether they prefer to go to the aquarium or an amusement park.

The results are shown in the table below.
Complete the following sentences.
$1)$? % of students prefer to go to the aquarium.

$2)$ ? % of teachers prefer to go to the aquarium.

	Aquarium	Amusement Park	Total
Students	8	32	40
Teachers	5	5	10
Total	13	37	50

Answer 1

Finding the percentage:

Given,

• Total number of students in the school $=40$
• Number of students who preferred to go to the aquarium $=8$
• Number of students who preferred to visit an amusement park $=32$
• Total number of teachers in the school $=10$
• Number of teachers who preferred to go to the aquarium $=5$
• Number of teachers who preferred to go to the amusement park $=5$

Percentage of students who preferred to go to the aquarium$=\frac{\text{Number of students prefer to go to the aquarium.}}{\text{Total number of students}}$

$$\begin{gathered} =\frac{8\times 100}{40} \\ =20\% \end{gathered}$$

Similarly, the percentage of teachers who preferred to go to the aquarium

$$\begin{gathered} =\frac{5\times 100}{10} \\ =50\% \end{gathered}$$

Hence, the percentage of students and percentage of teachers who preferred to go to the aquarium were $20\%$ and $50\%$respectively.