Unemployment rates in the U.S. for the first four months of 2015 are given in the table above. These rates are based on prople, 16 years and order, that are considered to be part of the workforce. In a certain distinct, there are 12,800 people eligible to be part of the workforce, of work 53.5% are men. Based on the information in the table, how many more men in this distrinct were unemployed than women in April 2015 in this distinct?

Options

A. `13`
B. `56`
C. `90`
D. `896`

Answer

B

Explanation

Difficult: Medium
Category: Problem Solving and Data Analysis/ Statistics and Probability.
Strategic Advice: When a random sample is used to survey part of a population, the results are family representative of the entire population.
Getting to the Answer: Because the medical practice sruveyed a random sample, the percent of all the patients expected to prefer that the facility open ealier can estimated by the percent of partients who preffered that option in the sample, 37.5%. Therefore, of the practice's 600 patients ,approximately `600times0.375=225` patients would be expected to prefer that the facility open earlier.