A survey of Year 8 student revealed 12 out of 60 students walk to school each day. If there are 1450 students at the college, how many should walk to school each day?
12/60=.20 x 100=20% of grade 8 students walk to school. If we assume that the percentage of grade 8 students applies to the entire school of 1,450 students, then we have:
