Question

The risk of a child developing cancer is approx 3 in 1500. If there are approx 11,721,722 children, how many have cancer?

Answer 1

Approximately 23,433 children will have cancer.

Explanation:

3/1500 can be simplified to 1/500, which can also be written as 0.002. To find the number of children who have cancer, we do 11,721,722 * 0.002, which gives us 23,433.444 which we can round to 23,433.