Question

of the 74 million people in age group 21-24, about 47 million have some college experience but no college degree. what percent of the people in this age range have some college experience but have not earned a college degree (round to the nearest tenth of a percent)

Answer 1

According to the information given in the exercise: About 47 million people (of a total of 74 million people) in the age group 21-24, have some college experience but no college degree.

Let be "x" the percent of the people in the age group 21-24 that have some college experience but have not earned a college degree.

Analyzing the information provided, you can identify that 74 million people in the age group 21-24 is the 100%. Then, you can set up the following proportion:

`(100)/(74,000,000)=(x)/(47,000,000)`

Now you can solve for "x":

`\begin{gathered} (47,000,000)((100)/(74,000,000))=x \\ \\ x\approx63.5 \end{gathered}`

Therefore, the answer is: 63.5%