SOLUTION: In a recent year, North Carolina produced 963,000,000 poundsof turkey. This was 13.5% of the U.S. total in that year. Calculate the U.S. totalturkey production for that year. Round

SOLUTION: In a recent year, North Carolina produced 963,000,000 poundsof turkey. This was 13.5% of the U.S. total in that year. Calculate the U.S. totalturkey production for that year. Round

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Question 1158508: In a recent year, North Carolina produced 963,000,000 poundsof turkey. This was 13.5% of the U.S. total in that year. Calculate the U.S. totalturkey production for that year. Round to the nearest billion
Answer by mananth(16946) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Let the total production of Turkey in US be x pounds
Carolina produced 963,000,000 pounds of turkey
13.5% x = 963,000,000
x= 100 *963,000,000/13.5

7 billion
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