Question

The most common Native American language used in 2010 is Navajo, with about 169,000 people speaking the language nationally. If there are about 308.7 million people in the United States, what fraction of people speak Navajo? Write the ratio of these two population numbers as a decimal and percent.

Answer 1

169,000/308,700,000 which can be simplified to 169/308,700 and decimal form just divide 169,000 by 308,700,000 and you get .0005474571, and percentage multiply the decimal by 100 so you get .055% (rounded)

Answer 2

The fraction of people who speaks Navajo in USA is 0.000547 that is equal to 0.0547% of global population.

Explanation:

Calculate the number of people who speak Navajo per inhabitant living in the United States like this:

169000 navajo speakers / 308700000 inhabitants in the united states

The above is equal to the reason 169:308700, that is, 169 people speak Navajo in the United States for every 308700 inhabitants, a division that is also the same as saying that 0.000547 people speak Navajo for every inhabitant living in the United States.

To convert the previous quotient into a percentage, it must be multiplied by 100. In this way 0.000547x100 , it is equal to 0.0547%, a value that represents the percentage of inhabitants of the United States who speak Navajo.