Question

Zoe supplies costumes to a number of theatre companies. She recently provided 20 different hats, including 4 fedoras. Considering this data, how many of the next 15 hats requested from Zoe’s inventory will be fedoras?

Answer 1

3.

Explanation:

If there were 20 hats, and 4 of them were fedoras, we can conclude that 1/5 of the sent hats are going to be fedoras.

If there are 15 hats, we multiply 15 by 1/5 to get 3.

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