At a school cafeteria, a staff person surveyed the food preferences of 35 students. For every five students, two said they liked healthy foods. How many students preferred healthy foods?(1 point)
Responses
4
16
12
14
To find out how many students preferred healthy foods, we must determine what fraction of the students liked healthy foods based on the given ratio. If two out of every five students preferred healthy foods, and there were 35 students surveyed, we can use the following calculation to find the number of students who liked healthy foods:
Number of students who like healthy foods = (2/5) * Total number of students surveyed
Plugging in the numbers:
Number of students who like healthy foods = (2/5) * 35
= (2 * 35) / 5
= 70 / 5
= 14
So 14 students preferred healthy foods.