Practice #14
Answers
- In a major city, 8% of the potential work force, which consists
of 550,000 people, are unemployed. How many people are unemployed?
44,000 people are unemployed.
- Of the 112 small businesses in the local industrial park,
18 of them have declared bankruptcy within the last five years.
What percent of the businesses is this? Round to the nearest
tenth.
16.1% of the businesses have declared bankruptcy.
- If eleven students dropped out of a high school within the
last three years, how many will drop out in the next five? Assume
the drop out rate will not change.
18 drop outs (18.33 rounded down to the nearest whole)
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