Question

select the correct text
a survey is given to children and adults about their favorite meal of the day

• breakfast is preferred by one and half times more children than adults
• children and adults both had 24 respondents for dinner
• there were 62 adults who responded lunch, twice as great as the number of children who responded lunch

the results are shown in the table

	favorite meal
children	30	31	24	85
adults	45	62	24	131
total	75	93	48	216

which category has an error in the table?
breakfast lunch
adults children

Explanation:

Step1: Check breakfast data

Let number of adults who prefer breakfast be $x$. Children are 1.5 times more, so children should be $1.5x$. If $x = 30$, children should be $45$ not $30$.

Answer:

Breakfast