Question

Find each percent. (Lesson 0.6)

What percent of the people surveyed prefer strawberry ice cream?

Short answer

The percent of the people surveyed prefer strawberry ice cream is $21\%$.

Step-by-step solution

Step 1. Given information.

Step 2. To find the total responses.

The total number of responses is:

Sum of vanilla responses$+$ chocolate responses $+$ strawberry responses

So, $82+76+42=200$

Therefore, the total responses are $200$.

Step 3. To find the percent of the strawberry response.

The percent of the strawberry response is:

$\begin{array}{l}=\frac{42}{200}\times 100\\ =\frac{4200}{200}\\ =21\%\end{array}$

Hence, the percent of the people surveyed prefer strawberry ice cream is $21\%$.