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by **shergo21** on Mon Sep 03, 2012 6:13 pm

in 2008, 565650 Americans died of (all form of) cancer. Assuming a population of 305 millions, what was the mortality rate in units of deaths per 100000 people?

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by **stapel_eliz** on Tue Sep 04, 2012 3:00 pm

shergo21 wrote:in 2008, 565650 Americans died of (all form of) cancer. Assuming a population of 305 millions, what was the mortality rate in units of deaths per 100000 people?

What percent died? (Hint: Divide.)

What number would that be, out of a hundred thousand? (Hint: Multiply.) :wink:

by **MrAlgebra** on Mon Sep 17, 2012 2:21 pm

This is really just a ratio question.

"in 2008, 565650 Americans died of (all form of) cancer. Assuming a population of 305 millions, what was the mortality rate in units of deaths per 100000 people?"

You could set this up as 565650/305000000 = x / 100000 and go from there.

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