Question

City A newspaper had 2,925 subscriptions last month and 975 of those were on-line subscriptions. a. City A newspaper plans to have 57,000 subscriptions this year. Predict approximately how many of those subscriptions will be on-line.​

Answer 1

To make a prediction, we can use the proportion of online subscriptions from last month to estimate the number of online subscriptions for the year.

The proportion of online subscriptions last month was:

975 / 2,925 = 0.3333

So about 33.33% of the subscriptions last month were online.

To predict the number of online subscriptions for the year, we can use this proportion and apply it to the total number of subscriptions the newspaper plans to have this year:

57,000 x 0.3333 = 19,001.1

Rounding to the nearest whole number, we can predict that approximately 19,001 of the 57,000 subscriptions will be online.