If 160 million people are employed, 15 million people are unemployed, and the population is 280 million people, the unemployment rate is

A) 57 percent.
B) 62.5 percent.
C) 8.6 percent.
D) 9.4 percent.
E) not possible to calculate without data on the labor force.

C

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