Question

The population of Cincinnati is 301,305 people. If 28.7% of people in Cincinnati live poverty, how many people live in poverty

Answer 1

Answer:

86,475 people live in poverty.

Step-by-step explanation:

We are given that the Total Cincinnati population is $X_{TOT}=301,305$ people.

We want to find the $28.7$% of the Total population that lives in poverty. To do so we can use:

$X_{POV}=\frac{28.7}{100}X_{TOT}$

where $X_{POV}$ is the amount of people that live in poperty. Plugging in values and solving we have:

$X_{POV}=\frac{28.7}{100}301,305 \\X_{POV}=0.287*301,305\\X_{POV}=86,474.535$

However since here we are referring to number of people (i.e. population) we can not accept any irrational values so we need to round up our value so that

$X_{POV}=86,475$ people live in poverty in Cincinnati.