A group of 132 students chose baseball and soccer as their favorite sports in the ratio of 3:8. How many students chose soccer as their favorite sport?
to match up the students, there must be 11 in each section
132/11 = 12, so there are 12 sections
12*3:12*8 = 36:96
To find out how many students chose soccer as their favorite sport, we first need to determine the ratio between baseball and soccer.
The given ratio is 3:8, which means that for every 3 students who chose baseball, 8 students chose soccer.
Next, we need to find out the actual number of students who chose baseball. We can do this by dividing the total number of students (132) into 3 parts, representing the 3 parts of the ratio that correspond to baseball.
132 divided by 3 equals 44. So there are 44 students who chose baseball as their favorite sport.
Now, we can find out the number of students who chose soccer by multiplying the number of students who chose baseball (44) by the corresponding part of the ratio that represents soccer. In this case, the ratio is 8 parts for soccer.
44 multiplied by 8 equals 352.
Therefore, there were 352 students who chose soccer as their favorite sport.