Question 844928: If 14% of the 230 million adult Americans live in poverty, how many adult Americans live in poverty?
Answer by pmesler(52)   (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website! When you want to find the percentage of some number x you simply move the decimal number to the right twice and multiply that number by x.
For this example, it says that 14% of 230,000,000 Americans live in poverty.
To find out what 14% of 230,000,000 you turn 14% into a decimal.
14% = .14
Then multiply .14 by the total number of Americans, 230,000,000.
.14 * 230,000,000 = 32,200,000. Therefore 32,200,000 Americans live in poverty.
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