Answer:
11.63 percentage of the earthquakes are minor earthquakes
Explanation:
Given:
The number of earthquakes that that occur annually = 421,140
The number of minor earthquakes that that occur annually = 49,000
To Find:
Percentage of minor earthquakes =?
Solution:
let the percentage of minor earthquake be x
then
x = [tex]\frac{\text{ number of minor earthquake}}{\text{total number of earthquake}} \times 100[/tex]
x = [tex]\frac{49000}{421140} \times 100[/tex]
x =[tex]0.1165 \times 100[/tex]
x= 11.63
