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Chelseaamend

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The unemployment rate is 6 percent. If the population is 300 million, and the number unemployed is 6 million and the number employed is 94 million, what is the size of the labor force?
 
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Reply #1 on: Jun 29, 2018
Answer to Question 1

The labor force is the sum of the number of employed people plus the number of unemployed people. Hence the labor force equals 94 million + 6 million = 100 million.

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Reply 2 on: Jun 29, 2018
Excellent

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Thanks for the timely response, appreciate it

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