A mortality rate indicates the fraction of individuals in a population who are expected to die in the next year.
a. If the mortality rate among 35-year-old males is 0.34%, what is the expected number of deaths per year among a province’s total of 50,000 such males?
b. If 35-year-old males constitute 0.83% of the overall population in a city of 1.45 million, how many deaths of such males are expected in that city in a year?