2002 AMC 8 Problems/Problem 7
Problem 7
The students in Mrs. Sawyer's class were asked to do a taste test of five kinds of candy. Each student chose one kind of candy. A bar graph of their preferences is shown. What percent of her class chose candy E?
[asy]
real[] r={6, 8, 4, 2, 5};
int i;
for(i=0; i<5; i=i+1) {
filldraw((4i,0)--(4i+3,0)--(4i+3,2r[i])--(4i,2r[i])--cycle, black, black);
}
draw(origin--(19,0)--(19,16)--(0,16)--cycle, linewidth(0.9));
for(i=1; i<8; i=i+1) {
draw((0,2i)--(19,2i));
}
label("
", (0,2*0), W);
label("
", (0,2*1), W);
label("
", (0,2*2), W);
label("
", (0,2*3), W);
label("
", (0,2*4), W);
label("
", (0,2*5), W);
label("
", (0,2*6), W);
label("
", (0,2*7), W);
label("
", (0,2*8), W);
label("
", (0*4+1.5, 0), S);
label("
", (1*4+1.5, 0), S);
label("
", (2*4+1.5, 0), S);
label("
", (3*4+1.5, 0), S);
label("
", (4*4+1.5, 0), S);
label("SWEET TOOTH", (9.5,18), N);
label("Kinds of candy", (9.5,-2), S);
label(rotate(90)*"Number of students", (-2,8), W);[/asy]
