SOLUTION: A country has 221 mobile cellular telephones per 250 inhabitants. If the country's population is about 2,800,000 how many mobile cellular telephones does the country have? In you

Question 332761: A country has 221 mobile cellular telephones per 250 inhabitants. If the country's population is about 2,800,000 how many mobile cellular telephones does the country have? In your own words, using complete sentences solve the problem.

Answer by Jstrasner(112) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Hey,
For this one you need to find the percentage of people in this country that have these devices. You divide 221 by 250 and get .884 multiply this by 100% and you get 88.4%. Therefore, 88.4% of 2,800,000 is simply the product of .884 and 2,800,000, which is 2,475,200 people.
I hope this helps!
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