Question

of the 74 million people in age group 21-24, about 47 million have some college experience but no college degree. what percent of the people in this age range have some college experience but have not earned a college degree (round to the nearest tenth of a percent)

Answer 1

According to the information given in the exercise: About 47 million people (of a total of 74 million people) in the age group 21-24, have some college experience but no college degree.

Let be "x" the percent of the people in the age group 21-24 that have some college experience but have not earned a college degree.

Analyzing the information provided, you can identify that 74 million people in the age group 21-24 is the 100%. Then, you can set up the following proportion:

$\frac{100}{74,000,000}=\frac{x}{47,000,000}$

Now you can solve for "x":

$\begin{gathered} (47,000,000)(\frac{100}{74,000,000})=x \\ \\ x\approx63.5 \end{gathered}$

Therefore, the answer is: 63.5%