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prealgebra senior

Problem

In Idaho, 472 people were asked what they call soft drinks. The results of the survey are shown in the pie chart. The central angle of the ``Pop'' sector of the graph is , to the nearest whole degree. How many of the people surveyed chose ``Pop''? Express your answer as a whole number.

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Solution
We want to find the fraction of people that chose ``Pop". To this end, we find the fraction of the circle that represents ``Pop", , and multiply by the total number of people surveyed: . Rounding to a whole number gives a possible answer of people.

This method doesn't prove that the answer is unique, but we can check that people would take up only degrees of the pie chart, while people would take up degrees. So, people are the only number whose share of the pie rounds to the nearest degree as .
Final answer
329