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Top Issues Facing the U.S.: Survey Answers

1) Which issue was chosen as the most important by a little over a third of the students?

  Answer: Crime

2) What percentage of students did not feel that crime, environment, or education was the most important issue? Write this as a fraction.

  Answer: 24% = 24/100 = 6/25

3) What percentage of students did not believe that the environment was the most important issue?

  Answer: 71%

4) If exactly 50,000 students participated in this poll, how many thought education was the number one issue?

  Answer: 5,500