There are approximately 900,000 television households in the San Diego County market. During a Sunday afternoon in October, 50 percent of the households had their television sets turned on and 200,000 were watching a football game. The approximate share of audience for the game would be:

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The share of audience is the percentage of TV households watching a specific program out of the total number of TV households with their sets turned on.

So, the share of audience for the football game is:

(200,000 households watching the game / 450,000 households with their TVs turned on) x 100% = 44.44%

Round this to the nearest whole number, and we get the answer of 44, which corresponds to choice letter B.

There Are Approximately 900,000 Television Households in the San Diego