(Solved): /1800 Resources Question 8 of 18 Stacked A letter to the editor of The New York Times compla ...

/1800 Resources Question 8 of 18 Stacked

A letter to the editor of The New York Times complained about a Times editorial that said "an American woman is beaten by her husband or boyfriend every 15 seconds." The writer of the letter claimed that "at that rate, 21 million women would be beaten by their husbands or boyfriends every year. That is simply not the case." He cited the National Crime Victimization Survey, which estimated 56,000 cases of violence against women by their husbands and 198,000 by boyfriends or former boyfriends. The survey showed 2.2 million assaults against women in all, most by strangers or someone the women knew who was not her past or present husband or boyfriend. A beating every 15 seconds is 4 beatings per minute. At that rate, how many beatings would take place in a year? Report your ganswer in millions of beatings, rounded to the tenth of a million. (For example, if the answer is

beatings, report the answer as 10.2 million.) number of beatings in a year:

million