in 2001 there were about 2,317,000 marriages in the United States.

Ms.Sue, I know you want me to do this by myself and you would do the explaining.

Ms.Sue here is one of the example problems from my study links.I don't get how they find the percentage. My teacher said we have to use the caculator for this.

Month: # of marriage: %of total
January 147,000 marriages:
6%

How do they get 6%

147 000 / 2 317 000 = 0.0634441088

Move the decimal point two places to the right. 0.063 = 6%

do x 100

To find the percentage, you need to divide the number you want to calculate the percentage of by the total number you are comparing it to, and then multiply the result by 100.

In this case, you want to find the percentage of marriages in January compared to the total number of marriages in the year. The total number of marriages in the year is given as 2,317,000.

To calculate the percentage, you would use the following formula:

Percentage = (Number of marriages in January / Total number of marriages) * 100

Using the given numbers:

Percentage = (147,000 / 2,317,000) * 100 = 6.35%

Therefore, the percentage of marriages in January is approximately 6%.