In a survey of 85 people, every fifth person had a pierced car.
How many people had a pierced car?
Which calculation would help you to find the answer?
0.5*85
85* 1/5
5+85
85- 4/5
85*0.25
One fifth as a fraction is 1/5 so 1 out of every 5 surveyed purchased a car.
85* 1/5
To find the number of people who had a pierced car, you would use the calculation 85 * 1/5.
To find the answer, we need to determine the number of people who had a pierced car in a survey of 85 people.
Based on the information given, every fifth person had a pierced car.
To calculate this, we can use the division and modulus operation.
First, we divide 85 by 5:
85 ÷ 5 = 17
This tells us that there are 17 groups of five people.
Then, we multiply the number of groups by the number of people in each group who had a pierced car (which is 1):
17 groups × 1 person per group = 17 people
Therefore, the number of people who had a pierced car in the survey is 17.
So the correct calculation would be: 85 ÷ 5 × 1 = 17