The population of the US is about 300,000,000. If Spanish is the primary language for 10.7 percent of the population, about how many people speak spanish as their primary language?

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Elliott Miranda

Mathematics

9 March, 03:00

The population of the US is about 300,000,000. If Spanish is the primary language for 10.7 percent of the population, about how many people speak spanish as their primary language?

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Dominique Reed · Answer 1

300,000,000 * 0.107 = 32,100,000 people

10.7 as a percent is 10.7 / 100 = 0.107

Kelly Bartlett · Answer 2

Hi there! With about 300,000,000 people living the U. S., and 10.7% of the population speak Spanish as their primary language, in order to find the amount of people that speak Spanish as a primary language, we need to multiply the people in the U. S. by the percentage. 300,000,000 * 10.7% (0.107) is 32,100,000. There. About 32.1 million (32,100,000) people speak Spanish as their primary language in the U. S.