Question

In the last year,a total of 14,905 earthquakes occurred in a country. Of these,88.8% were minor tremors with magnitude of 4.9 or less on the Richter scale. How many minor earthquakes occurred in the country in the last year?

Answer 1

13,236 minor earthquakes occurred

Step-by-step explanation:

`(Part)/(Total)`

"x" part amount of earthquakes

14,905 total amount of earthquakes

88.8 % part percentage of earthquakes

100% total percentage of earthquakes

`(x)/(14905)` =
`(88.8)/(100)`

x = 14,905 ×
`(88.8)/(100)`

x = 14,905 × 0.888 = 13,235.64 ≈ 13,236 minor earthquakes occurred