Problema Solution
A large western state consists of 2704 million acres of land. Approximately 88% of this land is federally owned. Find the number of acres that are not federally owned.
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If 88% is federally owned, 22% (100-88) is not federally owned. 22% of 2704 million acres can be written as:
.22*2704=594.88 million acres