Answer:
16,920,000 people speak Spanish at home in the United States, which represents 6.48% of the country's population.
Step-by-step explanation:
Given that approximately 261,000,000 people live in the United States, and of these people 37,600,000 speak a language other than English at home, of which over 45 percent speak Spanish, to determine the number of people who speak Spanish in the United States, the following calculation has to be done:
37,600,000 x 0.45 = X
16,920,000 = X
261,000,000 = 100
16,920,000 = X
16,920,000 x 100 / 261,000,000 = X
6.48 = X
Thus, some 16,920,000 people speak Spanish at home in the United States, which represents 6.48% of the country's population.
