As of 1990, the American Indian population was about 2,000,000. About #1/5# were Cherokee. About how many members of the Cherokee tribe were there in 1990?

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Answer 1 · 2016-10-14T16:15:45

#400,000#

#2,000,000xx1/5=400,000#

Answer 2 · 2016-10-16T15:11:35

Just another way of dealing with big numbers of this form

#400,000#

Because 5 divides exactly into 20
Write 2,000,000 as #20xx100,000#

Giving #20/5xx100,000#

#4xx100,000 = 400,000#