Question

In 2009, a city with a population of 681,000 had 2,043 births. What is the number of births per 10,000 in the city?
A.
300
B.
3
C.
30
D.
0.3

Answer 1

you can use ratios
\[ \frac{2043}{681000}= \frac{x}{10000}\]
and you need to find x
to do that multiply both sides by 10000 and simplify