SOLUTION: If there are "about" 300 million Americans and 0.17 adults like baseball, "about" how many baseball fans are there?

SOLUTION: If there are "about" 300 million Americans and 0.17 adults like baseball, "about" how many baseball fans are there?

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Question 888246: If there are "about" 300 million Americans and 0.17 adults like baseball, "about" how many baseball fans are there?

Answer by jim_thompson5910(35256) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
0.17*300 = 51

So 51 million people like baseball.
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