Question

In a recent year, 70.9 million people visited the top 5 theme parks in North America. That represents an increase of about 1.14% in the number of visitors from the prior year. About how many people visited the top 5 theme parks in North America in the prior year?

Answer 1

69.92 million people

Explanation:

We have the next data:

Recent year = 70.9 million people= 1.14% increase from the prior year

Question to answer

How many people visited the top 5 theme in the prior year?

By the rule of three we have that

70.9 = 101.14%

x = 100%

The increase is related to the total of people that visited the parks in the prior year so we can say that our 100% is related to that number of visitors in the prior year

`((100)*(70.9))/(101.4) =69.92`

Hence the answer is 69.92 million people