Question

In 1997 the U.S. population was approxiamately 266,667,000 people. At the rate of 440 prisoners per 100,000 population, about how many prisoners were inthe system

Answer 1

Around 1.2 million

Explanation:

If we multiply 266,667,000 by 440/100,000 we get about 1,173,334 which we can round to about 1.2 million