A STUDY RECENTLY CONFIRMED OF EVERY 100 CITIZENS OF A CERTAIN STATE, 50 ARE CONSIDERED OVERWEIGHT. THERE WERE 291 MILLION CITIZENS OF THIS STATE IN 2001. HOW MANY WOULD BE CONSIDERED OVERWEIGHT?

Question

HELP ME SOLVE MATH PROBLEM: A STUDY RECENTLY CONFIRMED OF EVERY 100 CITIZENS OF A CERTAIN STATE, 50 ARE CONSIDERED OVERWEIGHT. THERE WERE 291 MILLION CITIZENS OF THIS STATE IN 2001. HOW MANY WOULD BE CONSIDERED OVERWEIGHT?

Answer 1

If 50 out of 100 citizens were considered overweight, then this is the fraction 50/100=1/2 or ratio 1:1 (equal numbers of overweight and not overweight). Applying this fraction to the population: 291000000/2=145,500,000 would be overweight.