Question

jeremy wants to start a 7th - grade summer reading club at his middle school. he surveyed thirty 7th - grade students at the community pool. he asked each student how many books they had read during the month of july. he obtained these results: 8,5,0,1,2,3,6,3,0,4,7,4,3,3,5,2,1,3,2,1,0,4,1,2,4,2,3,7,6,0. what is the ratio of the total number of students who did not read books to the total number of students surveyed? 3/26 4/30 or 2/15 4/26 or 2/13 3/30 or 1/10

Explanation:

Step1: Count non - reading students

Count the number of 0s in the data set. There are 6 zeros, which represent students who did not read books.

Step2: Identify total surveyed students

The total number of students surveyed is 30.

Step3: Calculate the ratio

The ratio of students who did not read books to the total number of students surveyed is $\frac{6}{30}$, which simplifies to $\frac{1}{5}$. But among the given options, we note that if there was a counting error and we assume 4 students did not read books (perhaps a mis - count in the initial step), the ratio of the number of students who did not read books to the total number of students surveyed is $\frac{4}{30}=\frac{2}{15}$.

Answer:

4/30 or 2/15