Task 443

The task

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] /* AMC8 2002 #7 Problem */ size(3.5inch, 1.5inch); for ( int y = 0; y <= 8; y += 2 ) { draw((0,y)--(15,y)); label(scale(0.7)*(string)y, (0,y), W); } label(scale(0.9)*"$A$", (1.5, 0), S); label(scale(0.9)*"$B$", (4.5, 0), S); label(scale(0.9)*"$C$", (7.5,0), S); label(scale(0.9)*"$D$", (10.5, 0), S); label(scale(0.9)*"$E$", (13.5, 0), S); label(scale(0.7)*rotate(90)*"Number of Students", (-0.8,4), W); label(scale(0.9)*"Kinds of candy", (7.5,-2.5)); fill((0.5,0)--(0.5,6)--(2.5,6)--(2.5,0)--cycle, red); fill((3.5,0)--(3.5,8)--(5.5,8)--(5.5,0)--cycle, blue); fill((6.5,0)--(6.5,4)--(8.5,4)--(8.5,0)--cycle, pink); fill((9.5,0)--(9.5,2)--(11.5,2)--(11.5,0)--cycle, green); fill((12.5,0)--(12.5,5)--(14.5,5)--(14.5,0)--cycle, purple); [/asy]