A local university accepted 2,300 students out of 4,500 applicants for admission. what was the acceptance rate, expressed as a percent? show your work.
we are given in this problem the sample space or the total number of respondents or population equal to 4,500. We are asked to determine the success rate of the problem. The number of accepted applicants is 2300. hence the success rate is 2300/4500 equal to 51.11%