Hello everyone. I am new here and have a hard time figuring out percentages. I am in a discussion with someone online and want to be able to continue my debate and talk in terms of numbers and probability. According to the FBI website 32 cops were feloniously killed by whites. And 15 were killed by blacks. And given that whites make up 72.4% of the US population and blacks make up 13%, how much more or less likely is a cop to be killed by a person who is either black or white?
Using other numbers, there are 43 million blacks in the US yet there are 197.7 million whites. Given that there are nearly 5.6 times as many whites yet blacks committed half as many murders as whites how can I work this into percentages of a cop being killed or less likely according to race?
If anyone will answer will you provide the process or direct me on where I can learn to do this so I can finally be able to do this on my own?
I am rather embarrassed by my inability to figure these things. Hope to get some help, thank you!
Using other numbers, there are 43 million blacks in the US yet there are 197.7 million whites. Given that there are nearly 5.6 times as many whites yet blacks committed half as many murders as whites how can I work this into percentages of a cop being killed or less likely according to race?
If anyone will answer will you provide the process or direct me on where I can learn to do this so I can finally be able to do this on my own?
I am rather embarrassed by my inability to figure these things. Hope to get some help, thank you!