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Notable numbers: Olympians, voter trends and Chicago murders

U.S. swimmer Simone Manuel sees her first-place finish on the scoreboard in the women’s 100m freestyle at the Olympic Aquatics Stadium in Rio. She became the first African-American woman to win a swimming gold for the United States.
U.S. swimmer Simone Manuel sees her first-place finish on the scoreboard in the women’s 100m freestyle at the Olympic Aquatics Stadium in Rio. She became the first African-American woman to win a swimming gold for the United States. TNS

554 The number of Olympic athletes on Team USA in Rio

29 The number of those athletes who attended Standford University

47 The number of those athletes who were born in other countries

52 The age of the oldest U.S. Olympian: equestrian Phillip Dutton, who won a bronze medal on Tuesday

66 The percentage of the U.S. team members who are first-time Olympians

$1.3 million What Gov. Pat McCrory’s office spent on legal services since he took office in 2013 until October

$56,000 What prior administrations dating to 2001 spent

$678,000 What the South Carolina firm of lawyer Butch Bowers had billed the governor’s office through October for work on the voter ID case

1 Where North Dakota ranks as the state where per capita incomes have the most purchasing power after adjusting for the purchasing power of a dollar

31 The number of states that have passed laws regulating drones since 2013

467,800 The number of drones registered in the United States as of June

4,638 The number registered by hobbyists in North Carolina

247 The number registered by nonhobbyists

43 The percentage of North Carolina voters who said in a PPP poll this week that they would vote for Hillary Clinton

41 The percentage who said they’d vote for Donald Trump

69 The percentage of those likely Trump voters who think that if Clinton wins the election it will be because it was rigged

40 The percentage of likely Trump voters who think that ACORN (which hasn’t existed in years) will steal the election for Clinton

47 The percentage of Trump voters who say they saw the video of Iran collecting $400 million dollars from the U.S., even though Trump admitted it doesn’t exist

25 The percentage of Clinton voters who said they saw the video that doesn’t exist

41 The percentage of Trump voters who agreed with him that Clinton is the devil

42 The percentage of those voters who don’t agree she’s the devil

17 The percentage who just aren’t sure

87.1 Hillary Clinton’s chances of becoming president, according to FiveThirtyEight on Tuesday

72.2 Clinton’s chances of winning North Carolina had the election been held Tuesday

86.2 Hillary Clinton’s chances of becoming president, according to FiveThirtyEight on Thursday

70.8 Clinton’s chances of winning North Carolina had the election been held Tuesday

7 Where Chicago ranks among the nation’s largest cities in terms of racial diversity of its residents

1 Where Chicago ranks in terms of residential segregation

19 The number of people shot in Chicago on Monday,

9 The number who died, making it the deadliest day in Chicago in more than a decade

2,500 The number of people who have been shot in the city since the beginning of the year

426 The total number of homicides this year

700 The rate, per 100,000 residents, of incarceration in the United States

450 The rate in Russia

300,000 The number of people in U.S. jails and prisons in 1970

2.2 million The number in 2005

$80 billion What it caused to house prisoners in U.S. jails in 2010

26 The number of times more African-Americans were sent to prison in 1997 than in 1983

7 The number of times more whites were sent to prison

This story was originally published August 12, 2016 at 4:37 PM with the headline "Notable numbers: Olympians, voter trends and Chicago murders."

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