Question

Fourteen percent of the town’s population are above the age of 65. If there are about

320 residents over the age of 65, then what is the town’s population?

Answer 1

So if 14% are over 65, and 320 residents are over 65, then we can say that 14% of the town is 320. Then, we can divide by 14 to find 1%, which is 22.857142857 Now we can multiply this by 100 to get 2285.7142857.

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