Preventing Heart Disease

Hello There asked:


I have the total population for each state and then the number of deaths per 100,000 for each state should I divide the population by 100,000 then multiply that answer by the deaths per 100,000 to get an answer i.e if the population of Texas is 22,968,248 should i divide that by 100,000 and then multiply that answer by 237.8 (number of deaths per hundred thousand due to heart disease)?

Phillip