SOLUTION: Each year the residents of a country purchase 60 billion cartons of eggs. If there are 252 million people in the​ country, how many cartons of eggs are purchased per person
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Question 1121669: Each year the residents of a country purchase 60 billion cartons of eggs. If there are 252 million people in the country, how many cartons of eggs are purchased per person in one year?
Use scientific notation to represent the quantity and population, then compute the answer. Use 10 Superscript 9 for one billion and 10 Superscript 6 for one million. Express your final answer in decimal notation.
Found 2 solutions by MathLover1, Theo:
Answer by MathLover1(20850) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Each year the residents of a country purchase billion cartons of eggs.
billion is
If there are million people in the country, it is
how many cartons of eggs are purchased per person in one year?
divide cartons of eggs by the number of people
since you have eggs, round it to whole number:
Answer by Theo(13342) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
60 billion cartons of eggs is equal to 60 * 10^9
252 million people is equal to 252 * 10^6
the number of cartons of eggs for each person is equal to:
(60 * 10^9) / (252 * 10^6)
this can be shown as:
(60/252) * (10^9/10^6)
60 / 252 = .2380952381
10^9 / 10^6 = 10^(9-6) = 10^3.
therefore the number of cartons of eggs per person is equal to .2380952381 * 10^3 which is equal to 238.0952381.
you can use your calculator to confirm.
simply input (60*10^9)/(252*10^6)
the calculator should tell you that that result is 238.0952381 in decimal notation.
if it give you the result in scientific notation, then it should tell you that the answer is 2.380952381 * 10^2
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