Practice question · Numerical answer
In the mobility table in this lesson, 150 of the 500 men of working-class origin reached the service class. What percentage of that origin group is that?
Hints
- Divide the number arriving by the size of the origin group.
- A hundred and fifty out of five hundred.
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30 (answers within ±0.01 count)
Why
30 per cent. Set that against the 60 per cent of service-origin men who reached the service class and the shape of the inequality becomes visible: a working-class son had half the chance, even in a cohort where more service-class arrivals came from working-class origins than from anywhere else.
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