301,012
1) Considering the data, we can write out the following equivalence:
2) Notice that we need to rewrite those figures as 100% =1, and 14.2% as 0.142.
Now we can calculate how many people are equivalent to that rate of unemployment:
Notice that we rounded off to the nearest whole number.
3) So, there were approximately 301,012 Oregonians unemployed at that time