Question

In 1990, of the 3,219,000 sales of existing one-family houses in the United States, 458,000 were in the Northeast, 809,000 were in the Midwest, 1,193,000 were in the South, and 759,000 were in the West. (Source: Statistical Abstract of the U.S., 2001)

Suppose you drew a circle graph to represent this information, what percent of the graph represents the Midwest?

Answer 1

Divide 809,000 by 3,219,000=.2513 or 25% :)