Complete the table below, then answer the questions below the table. Give all answers as percents to 3 decimal places. Incarcerated Not Incarcerated Total African American % % 13% White % % 76% Other % % Total % % 100% b) What percentage of African Americans are incarcerated? % Give answer as percentage to 3 decimal places. c) What percentage of Whites are incarcerated? % Give answer as percentage to 3 decimal places.
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Approximately 13 percent of the US population is African American and 76 percent are White. Approximately 0.7 percent of the US population is incarcerated. Approximately 36 percent of the people incarcerated are African Americans and the same percent are White.
a) Complete the table below, then answer the questions below the table. Give all answers as percents to 3 decimal places.
| Incarcerated | Not Incarcerated | Total | |
| African American | % | % | 13% |
| White | % | % | 76% |
| Other | % | % | |
| Total | % | % | 100% |
b) What percentage of African Americans are incarcerated? % Give answer as percentage to 3 decimal places.
c) What percentage of Whites are incarcerated? % Give answer as percentage to 3 decimal places.
d) How many times larger is the percentage of African Americans incarcerated compared to the percentage of Whites incarcerated?
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