Tallulah owns a small business selling clothing. She knows that in the last week 28 customers paid cash, 15 customers used a debit card, and 61 customers used a credit card.If next week, she is expecting 1000 customers, about how many would you expect to pay with a debit card? Round your answer to the nearest whole number.Answer:
Q. Tallulah owns a small business selling clothing. She knows that in the last week 28 customers paid cash, 15 customers used a debit card, and 61 customers used a credit card.If next week, she is expecting 1000 customers, about how many would you expect to pay with a debit card? Round your answer to the nearest whole number.Answer:
Calculate total customers: Calculate the total number of customers from last week.Total customers = Customers who paid cash + Customers who used a debit card + Customers who used a credit cardTotal customers = 28+15+61Total customers = 104
Calculate debit card proportion: Calculate the proportion of customers who used a debit card last week.Proportion of debit card users = Number of customers who used a debit card / Total number of customersProportion of debit card users = 10415
Estimate debit card users: Use the proportion of debit card users to estimate the number of debit card users among the expected customers next week.Expected number of debit card users = Proportion of debit card users × Total expected customers next weekExpected number of debit card users = (15/104)×1000Expected number of debit card users ≈144.23
Round expected number: Round the expected number of debit card users to the nearest whole number.Rounded expected number of debit card users ≈144