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Calculating the number of government employees

In the video, you used the unemployment variable, which is a percentage, to calculate the number of unemployed people in each county. In this exercise, you'll do the same with another percentage variable: public_work.

The code provided already selects the state, county, population, and public_work columns.

This exercise is part of the course

Data Manipulation with dplyr

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Have a go at this exercise by completing this sample code.

counties_selected <- counties %>%
  select(state, county, population, public_work)

counties_selected %>%
  # Add a new column public_workers with the number of people employed in public work
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