Question

A certain country has an infant mortality rate of 6.8% of 20,000 babies born in a certain year. How many survived?
A) 4
B) 25
C) 40
D) 1

Answer 1

Answer:

Here’s how my brain works on percentage questions.

20,000 [total amount] X .932 [the percentage who survived] = 18,640 [the actual number who survived]

The answer to your question is 18,640 survived.

P.S. I got the percentage of survivors by starting with 100 [%] and subtracting 6.8 [% who died] leaving 93.2 [%who lived]