Chapter 6.3, Problem 11PPS

To determine

The aluminum cans recycle per week.

Answer to Problem 11PPS

The aluminum cans recycled per week is $\text{0}\text{.998}$ billion.

Explanation of Solution

Given information:

  $51.9$ Billion aluminum cans were recycled in a recent year.

Formula used:

Year and weeks are related to each other by a mathematical as,

  $1\text{year}=52\text{weeks}$

Calculation:

Consider the given information “ $51.9$ billion aluminum cans were recycled in a recent year.”

Recall that the year and weeks are related to each other as, $1\text{year}=52\text{weeks}$ .

So, aluminum cans recycled per week is evaluated as when $51.9$ is divided by $52$ .

Therefore, aluminum cans recycled per week is,

  $\frac{51.9}{52}=0.998$

Hence, the aluminum cans recycled per week is $0.998$ billion.