Question

According to areport on consumer fraud and identity theft, 22% of all complaints during one year were for identity theft. In that year, Alabama had 325 complaints of identity theft out of 1419 consumer complaints. Does this data provide enough evidence to show that Alabama had a lower proportion of identity theft than 22%?

Answer 1

No, Alabama had a slightly higher proportion of identity theft than 22%.

Explanation:

We need to find what percent 325 is of 1419.

To find what percent a part is of a whole, divide the part by the whole and multiply by 100.

325/1419 * 100% = 0.22903 * 100% = 23%