Question 946503: There are approximately 4.1 million births in a country per year. Find the birth rate in units of births per minute.
Answer by Zucchini(70)   (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website! We need to convert years into minutes. Let's take this one step at a time. First of all, how many weeks are there in a year? 52. Secondly, how many days are in a week? 7. Next, how many hours are there in a day? 24. Lastly, how many minutes are in an hour? 60. So, first let's start out by calculating the number of minutes in a day. In order to do that, we do 60 times 24, which is 1440. So, there are 1,440 minutes per day. Now, we calculate the number of minutes in a week. 1,440*7=10,080. Now, we find the number of minutes in a year. 10,080*52= 524,160. So, there are approximately 1.4 million births in a country per 524,160 minutes. So, we divide 4.1 million by 524,160. Then you get 2.6... So, approximately 3 births per minute.
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