Question

is the percent of the continental states primarily in the Eastern time zone greater than or less than the percent of all states that are in the Mountain or Central time zone?

Answer 1

The percent of the continental states primarily in the Eastern time zone isless than the percent of all states that are in the Mountain or Central time zone.

Explanation:

Step 1:

In order to determine the percentages of the given zones first, we need to determine the total number of states that are being taken into count.

The total number of zones
`= 4 + 7+2+21+16+1 = 51.`

There are 51 states in total.

Step 2:

The number of states in the eastern time zone is 21.

The percent of states in the eastern time zone
`= ((21)/(51)) (100) = 0.4117(100) = 41.17\%.`

There are 7 states in the Mountain time zone and there are 16 states in the central time zone.

So the percent of states in the mountain time zone or the central time zone
`= ((16+7)/(51) )(100 )= 0.4509(100) = 45.09\%.`

So the percent of the continental states primarily in the Eastern time zone is less than the percent of all states that are in the Mountain or Central time zone.