In 1931, President Herbert Hoover was paid a salary of $75,000. Government statistics show a consumer price index of 15.2 for 1931 and 229.6 for 2012. President Hoover’s 1931 salary was equivalent to a 2012 salary of about .

Step-by-step explanation:

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8

step-by-step explanation:

this is a subtraction problem.

10 - 2 = 8

in problems involving proportions, we can use cross products to test whether two ratios are equal and form a proportion. to find the cross products of a proportion, we multiply the outer terms, called the extremes, and the middle terms, called the means.

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