Recently, a meme on social media was divvying up lottery winnings among everyone in the country.  If the jackpot at that time was $8.8 billion and the meme estimated a population of 304 million people, how much money would each person "win"?   Do your calculations using the product or quotient rule.  Then change the number to a standard number rounded to the nearest cent.

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Recently, a meme on social media was divvying up lottery winnings among everyone in the country.  If the jackpot at that time was $8.8 billion and the meme estimated a population of 304 million people, how much money would each person "win"?  

Do your calculations using the product or quotient rule.  Then change the number to a standard number rounded to the nearest cent.

 

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Recently, a meme on social media was divvying up lottery winnings among

everyone in the country.  If the jackpot at that time was $8.8 billion and the

meme estimated a population of 304 million people, then to determine

how much money would each person "win".

 

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