Suppose that the populations of the United States and China both increase by 12 million people in one year. What would be the relative change for each country? Answer to the nearest tenth of a percent (1 decimal place). Make sure that you fill in each answer area before checking "How Did I Do?". If you assume that the U. S. population is about 300 million, an increase of 12 million would result in a relative change of Number %. If you assume that China has about 1 billion people, an increase of 12 million would result in a relative change of Number %.

In the given year, American population grew by 4% while China's population grew by 1.2%.

Explanation:

The present problem establishes that in one year the populations of China and the United States both increased by 12 million people. But both countries have different populations: China has a population of 1 billion inhabitants, while the United States has 300 million.

To determine the percentage of population increase in each country, we must perform cross multiplications:

-U.S:

300 = 100

12 = X

(12 x 100) / 300 = X

1,200 / 300 = X

4 = X

The United States grew by population 4% in the year.

-China:

1,000 = 100

12 = X

(12 x 100) / 1,000 = X

1,200 / 1,000 = X

1.2 = X

China grew by population 1.2% in the same period of time.

advanced placement tests

answer: a. the kind of population living in your neighbourhood.

the census explorer data tool by the us census bureau allows the user to zoom in on any neighbourhood within the united states and find the kind of people residing in that by race and age.  

the tool needs to needs to be used twice – once in order to find what type of people reside in a neighbourhood, and then to see the age groups of the people in the same neighbourhood.