Question

an ice cream shop in newport sells a variety of different flavors and keeps track of its weekly sales. ice cream sales flavor vanilla cookies and cream strawberry mint chip rocky road other scoops served 0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100 what percent of scoops served were strawberry, rocky road, or cookies and cream? write your answer using a percent sign (%).

Explanation:

Step1: Estimate scoops for each flavor

From the bar - graph, strawberry has about 70 scoops, rocky road has about 25 scoops, and cookies and cream has about 55 scoops.

Step2: Calculate total scoops for these flavors

$70 + 25+55=150$ scoops.

Step3: Estimate total scoops of all flavors

Vanilla has about 20 scoops, mint chip has about 40 scoops, other has about 15 scoops. Total scoops of all flavors is $20 + 40+15+150 = 225$ scoops.

Step4: Calculate the percentage

The percentage is $\frac{150}{225}\times100\%=\frac{15000}{225}\% \approx 66.67\%$.

Answer:

$66.67\%$