The projected number of employed writers and authors in 2016 is 153,000. 12.4% of those will have some college experience but no degree, and 84.1% will have a bachelor's degree or higher. If this holds true, how many more writers and authors with bachelor's degree will there be than those with only some college experience and no degree?

a.

147,645

b.

109,701

c.

134,028

d.

128,673

153,000 total

12.4% with some college/no degree ... 0.124 (153,000) = 18,972

84.1% with bachelors or higher ... 0.841 (153,000) = 128,673

128,673 - 18,972 = 109,701 <===

Alright, to start this problem, we need to find the number of employed writers out of 153000 that have a bachelor's degree or higher and the number of employed writers that only have some college experience and no degree.

To do this, we'll start with the 12.4% that don't have a degree. To find out how many people that is, we just need to change that percentage into a decimal by dividing it by 100, giving us. 124, and then multiply that number by the total amount of people, which is 153000. when we do that, we end up with the number 18972, which tells us how many employed authors that don't have a degree.

Our next step is to find the number of employed authors with a degree, and to do this, we'll do something similar to what we just did. Taking the percentage of employed authors with a degree, turning it into a decimal, and then multiplying it by the total amount of people. The percent we are using this time is 84.1%, and multiplying that by 100 should give us a decimal of. 841, which we can then multiply by the total amount of people, which should give us 128673, which is the number of employed authors with a degree.

Our last step is to subtract the number of employed authors with a degree by the number of employed authors that don't have a degree, which is 128673-18972, which should come out to about 109701, which means that your answer should be B!