sandy wrote:
A market survey showed that 76 percent of the visitors at a certain resort came from Pacific or southwestern states. Of these, (2/3) were from California, and 87 percent of the Californians were from southern California. Approximately what percent of the visitors at the resort were from southern California?
(A) 40%
(B) 45%
(C) 50%
(D) 55%
(E) 65%
Here Let total visitor be 100
so 76% visitors are pacific or Southwestern State = 76% of 100 = 76 visitor
Now out of 76 visitor 2/3 were from California i.e 2/3 *76 = 51 visitor.
Therefore visitors at the resort from southern California =51 * 87% = 44.37% nearly equal = 45%
Now out of these 87% were from southern California