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Notable numbers: Homicide rates, Blue Cross blunders and Oprah’s weight

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450,000 The number of calls Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina fielded from unhappy customers the first week of January

$2 million The amount of money the insurer had refunded by Monday to 4,637 customers whose bank accounts were overdrafted

$420 The average overdraft per customer

25,000 The number of customers the insurer says it underbilled, by an average $72 per customer

401 The number of official complaints filed in the N.C. Department of Insurance as of Tuesday

68 The percentage of Democrats who say the problem with Washington is that there isn’t enough compromise

54 The percentage of Republicans who say the problem is too few principled politicians

57 The percentage of likely Democratic caucusgoers in Iowa who said Bernie Sanders best represents the values of Democrats like themselves

38 The percentage who said that about Hillary Clinton

38 The percentage of likely Democratic caucusgoers who said Sanders has the best chance of winning in the general election in November

60 The percentage who said that about Clinton

41 The number of people who died last year in North Carolina workplace accidents in industries that the Department of Labor regulates

45 The number who died in 2014

100 The percentage of the workers who were men and classified as laborers

0 The number of workers killed on the job in traffic accidents, homicides, small farms or federal facilities who were included in the department numbers

83 The number of workers killed in those categories in 2014

6.4 million The number of shares of Weight Watchers stock that Oprah Winfrey owns, or 10 percent of outstanding shares

$43 million What she paid for the stock

$12 million How much she made in an hour Tuesday on an uptick in stock value after she tweeted that she had lost 26 pounds while still eating bread

17 The percentage increase in the number of homicides in the country’s 50 largest cities last year over 2014

770 The increase in the number of people killed in those cities, the worst annual change since 1990

59 The percentage increase in homicides in Baltimore in 2015 over 2014, from 217 to 344

31 The percentage increase in Cleveland

54 The percentage in Washington

15 The percentage increase in Chicago

5 The percentage increase in New York City

582,000 The number of prisoners released from state and federal prisons in 2014

683,000 The number released in 2008

$18.4 billion The quarterly earnings for Apple in the three months prior to Dec. 26, the largest quarterly earnings of any company ever

51 The number of consecutive quarters of year-on-year revenue growth for Apple

11 The percentage decrease in revenue growth it’s expected to have the first three months of 2016 over the same period last year, thanks to turmoil in emerging markets, mainly China

This story was originally published January 29, 2016 at 4:19 PM with the headline "Notable numbers: Homicide rates, Blue Cross blunders and Oprah’s weight."

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