To determine how many runners finished the marathon, you need to use the given percentage of runners who completed the race and the total number of runners who started.
1. First, recognize that 94.12% of the runners finished the race. This percentage can be converted to a decimal for easier calculation:
[tex]\[ 94.12\% = 0.9412 \][/tex]
2. Next, you need to calculate the number of runners who finished by multiplying this proportion by the total number of runners who started the race, which is 2,125:
[tex]\[ \text{Runners finished} = 0.9412 \times 2125 \][/tex]
3. Performing the multiplication gives the number of runners who finished the race:
[tex]\[ 0.9412 \times 2125 = 2,000.05 \][/tex]
Since the number of runners cannot be a fraction, we round to the nearest whole number. Therefore, approximately 2,000 runners finished the race.
Based on this calculation, the best answer is:
C. 2,000
