Question

Lactose intolerance causes difficulty digesting dairy products that contain lactose (milk sugar). It is particularly common among people of African and Asian ancestry. In the United States (ignoring other groups and people who consider themselves to belong to more than one race), 82% of the population is White, 14% is Black, and 4% is Asian. Moreover, 15% of Whites, 70% of Blacks, and 90% of Asians are lactose intolerant.

Required:
a. What percent of the entire population is lactose intolerant?
b. What percent of people who are lactose intolerant are Asian?

Answer 1

Answer:

a) Experts estimate that about 68 percent of the world's population has lactose malabsorption. Lactose malabsorption is more common in some parts of the world than in others.

b) In the United States (ignoring other groups and people who consider themselves to belong to more than one race), 82% of the population is white, 14% is black, and 4% is Asian. Moreover, 15% of whites, 70% of blacks, and 90% of Asians are lactose intolerant.

Answer 2

i am honest not sure i just need points so i need to put this for the answer but it’s not so i’m sorry :/