A city employee collected survey data from 2330 randomly selected residents. A total of 865 of these residents said that they thought the city should devote more city funds to repair roads.

Question

To the nearest percent, what is a good estimate of the percentage of all residents who thought this?

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Answer 1

To find the percentage of residents who thought the city should devote more funds to repair roads, you can use the following formula:

\[ \text{Percentage} = \left( \frac{\text{Number of residents who support more funding}}{\text{Total number of residents surveyed}} \right) \times 100 \]

Plugging in the numbers:

\[ \text{Percentage} = \left( \frac{865}{2330} \right) \times 100 \]

Calculating this:

\[ \text{Percentage} \approx 0.3712 \times 100 \approx 37.12% \]

Rounding to the nearest percent, the estimate is:

\[ \boxed{37} , % \]