Of the 72 students who have Ms. Darnell for health/PE, 9 have an A. at this rate, how many of the 16 students in Ms.jay's homeroom would you expect to have an A show your work in number form

Question

Of the 72 students who have Ms. Darnell for health/PE, 9 have an A. at this rate, how many of the 16 students in Ms.jay's homeroom would you expect to have an A show your work in number form

Answer 1

To solve this problem, we can set up a proportion relationship between the number of students in Ms. Darnell's class and the number of students with an A.

Let x represent the number of students in Ms. Jay's homeroom who would be expected to have an A.

The proportion can be set up as:

9/72 = x/16

To solve for x, we can cross-multiply and divide:

72x = 9 * 16

72x = 144

Dividing both sides by 72:

x = 144/72

x = 2

Therefore, we would expect 2 students out of the 16 in Ms. Jay's homeroom to have an A.