Before I begin, This question is from Algebra nation
The data below shows the results of a survey on what types of drinks people prefer in the morning.
In the past, I've solved questions that are quite similar to this particular question. I asked about it on Mathematics Stack exchange, and I was informed on how I could solve the problem.
But when I tried using the same method to solve this problem, I came up with answers that were not applicable.
The answer choices are:
A.2% B.39% C.24% D.41% E.56%
What I tried
I tried adding up the total amount of people, and dividing the total amount of people by the total amount of males that prefer tea and energy drinks.
Total amount of people who were surveyed=200 Total amount of males that prefer tea and energy drinks=41
200÷41 or 200/41=4.87804
This was obviously wrong, but I wasn't sure, so i kept going. The next step was to convert this terminating decimal into a percentage, in hopes that just maybe it would be converted into one of the answer choices above.
In the end, I only ended up coming up with 487.804%
From what I know, a percentage cannot be above 100%
For example, if I was to say 130% of my students passed the quiz, it wouldn't make sense because a whole is 100%.
So what I need to know is the probability that a randomly selected male prefers tea or energy drinks.