SOLUTION: Formula: original x % = ANS There are 35 million Americans 65 or older, and they make up 13 percent of the U.S. population. What is the total population of the United States? Ro

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Question 1182437: Formula: original x % = ANS
There are 35 million Americans 65 or older, and they make up 13 percent of the U.S. population. What is the total population of the United States? Round to the nearest tenth of a million.

Answer by ikleyn(52831)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
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Write an equation as you read the problem


    0.13x = 35   millions.


From the equation


    x  =   = use your calculator = 269.23 millions = 269.2 millions (rounded).     ANSWER

Solved and explained.


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This problem is from an outdated source.

The current population of the US is 332.9 millions (2021).

https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/us-population/



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