Suppose 27 out of 50 people living in one neighborhood of a communtity excersise reguarly. How many people in a similar community of 2,600 pepople can be excpcted to excersise reguarly?
27/50 = 54%
0.54 * 2,600 = ?
To find out how many people in a community of 2,600 can be expected to exercise regularly, you need to use a proportion.
First, you can set up the proportion with the given information:
Person exercising / Total number of people = Person exercising / Total number of people
Using the first community as an example, the number of people exercising is 27, and the total number of people is 50. Now, you can plug these values into the proportion:
27 / 50 = x / 2600
To solve for x, you can cross-multiply and then divide:
27 * 2600 = 50 * x
70,200 = 50x
Next, divide both sides of the equation by 50:
70,200 / 50 = x
x = 1404
Therefore, in a community of 2,600 people, you can expect approximately 1,404 people to exercise regularly.