Use the table to answer the question.
Type of Event Total Number of Students
Roses and a Red Bow 15
Roses and a Yellow Bow 12
Roses and a Green Bow 5
Carnations and a Red Bow 8
Carnations and a Yellow Bow 5
Carnations and a Green Bow 9
Daisies and a Red Bow 17
Daisies and a Yellow Bow 12
Daisies and a Green Bow 7
Adam conducted a survey of his fellow students to determine which flowers they would buy with which kind of bow. He created the table to show the results of the experiment.
Predict how many boxes of roses with red bows Adam would have to order if he were to sell 1,567 total boxes of flowers. Round to the nearest whole number.
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To predict how many boxes of roses with red bows Adam would have to order, we first need to determine the proportion of roses with red bows compared to the total number of boxes of flowers.
The total number of boxes of roses with red bows is 15 students.
The total number of boxes of flowers is 15 + 12 + 5 + 8 + 5 + 9 + 17 + 12 + 7 = 90 students.
The proportion of boxes of roses with red bows is 15/90 = 1/6.
To find out how many boxes of roses with red bows Adam would need to order out of 1,567 total boxes of flowers, we calculate 1,567 * (1/6) ≈ 261.167.
Rounded to the nearest whole number, Adam would need to order approximately 261 boxes of roses with red bows.