A professor expects the education and health service industries to increase total employees by 14.8% from 2009 to 2016. Based on the employment graph below, approximately how many new jobs will the education and health service industries gain between 1/2009 and 1/2016?

a.
21,926,800
b.
2,826,800
c.
16,273,200
d.
1,790,600

Question

A professor expects the education and health service industries to increase total employees by 14.8% from 2009 to 2016.  Based on the employment graph below, approximately how many new jobs will the education and health service industries gain between 1/2009 and 1/2016?

a.
21,926,800
b.
2,826,800
c.
16,273,200
d.
1,790,600

Mercury · Answer

graph: https://media.education2020.com/evresources/2007-01-03-00-00_files/i0170000.jpg looking at 2009, the corresponding # of employees on the y-axis is around 19,000. However, the axis says the units are in thousands. so this is really 19,000*1000 to calculate a 14.8% growth, multiply the previous # by 0.148. then pick the closest answer choice.