SOLUTION: please help me solve this word problem: A large western state consists of 3560 million acres of land. Approximately 70% of this land is federally owned. Find the number of acres

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Question 1070771: please help me solve this word problem: A large western state consists of 3560 million acres of land. Approximately 70% of this land is federally owned. Find the number of acres that are not federally owned.
Answer by Fombitz(32388)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
70% are federally owned so 30% are not.

Work that out with a calculator to find out how many millions of acres are not federally owned.

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