Question

In a survey, 27% of the people chose salads over a meat dish. In all 81 people chose salads. How many people where in the survey?

Answer 1

27 is to 100 as 81 is to ______
using diamond method (27 times _____ and 100 times 81) we get 8100=27X
8100 / 27  = 300
300 people were surveyed

Answer 2

27 percent of the total chose salad over meal. That 27 percent equals

81 people and the question is how many people were in total?

       27 %    -   81 people

       100%  -    X?

100 x 81 / 27  =   300

100% = 300  The total amount of people participating in the survey were 300.