If 60% of a city’s population of 18,600 live within 4 miles of the municipal swimming pool, then how many people live within that four-mile radius? Demonstrate your reasoning using a math drawing or percent table (not by using proportions or solving an equation).

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If 60% of a city’s population of 18,600 live within 4 miles of the municipal swimming pool, then how many people live within that four-mile radius? Demonstrate your reasoning using a math drawing or percent table (not by using proportions or solving an equation).

 

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The population of city = 18,600

 

It is given that 60% of the city's population live within 4 miles of the municipal swimming pool.

 

we have to find out how many people live within that four-mile radius.

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