2. Monty filled a large bowl with fruit salad from the salad bar at a restaurant. It consisted of 15 blueberries, 55 pieces of pear, 20 pieces of apple, and 10 pieces of pineapple. Which of the following are valid generalizations about the composition of the fruit salad at the salad bar? Select all that apply. Pieces of pear make up a majority of fruit salad. Pieces of pineapple make up about \( 10 \% \) of fruit salad. There are no oranges in fruit salad. Half of a fruit salad is made up of pieces of apple.

The fruit salad contains a whopping 55 pieces of pear out of a total of 100 pieces (15 blueberries + 55 pears + 20 apples + 10 pineapples), making them the overwhelming majority! This translates to 55% of the salad’s composition, so you can confidently say pieces of pear make up a majority of the fruit salad. Now, let’s crunch some numbers for the pineapple! With only 10 pieces of pineapple in the mix, that accounted for 10% of the total fruit salad. Voila! So, both the statements about pieces of pear and pieces of pineapple are valid generalizations. However, don’t get too comfy with the claims about apples or the absence of oranges—those are floating in the realm of fiction!