Debt At the end of fiscal year 2015 the gross United States federal government debt was estimated to be approximately $18,600,000,000.000 ($18.6 trillion), according to the Federal Budget. The population of the United States was approximately 300,000,000 people at the end of fiscal year 2015. (a) Write the debt in scientific notation. (b) Write the population in scientific notation. (c) Find the amount of debt per person by using scientific notation to divide the debt by the population. Write the answer in scientific notation.
Debt At the end of fiscal year 2015 the gross United States federal government debt was estimated to be approximately $18,600,000,000.000 ($18.6 trillion), according to the Federal Budget. The population of the United States was approximately 300,000,000 people at the end of fiscal year 2015. (a) Write the debt in scientific notation. (b) Write the population in scientific notation. (c) Find the amount of debt per person by using scientific notation to divide the debt by the population. Write the answer in scientific notation.
Debt At the end of fiscal year 2015 the gross United States federal government debt was estimated to be approximately $18,600,000,000.000 ($18.6 trillion), according to the Federal Budget. The population of the United States was approximately 300,000,000 people at the end of fiscal year 2015.
(a) Write the debt in scientific notation.
(b) Write the population in scientific notation.
(c) Find the amount of debt per person by using scientific notation to divide the debt by the population. Write the answer in scientific notation.
At the end of the fiscal year 2018 the gross United States federal government debt is estimated to be approximately $18,600,000,000,000 according to the federal budget. The population of the United States will be approximately 300,000,000 people at the end of the fiscal year 2018.
A) write the debt in dollars, in scientific notation
B) write the population in number of people in scientific notation
C) find the amount of debt per person by using scientific notation to divide the debt by the population. Write the answer in dollars per person in scientific notation
Measures of population density indicate how crowded a place is by giving the approximate number of people per square unit of area. In 2009, the population of Puerto Rico was approximately 3.98 × 10^6 people and the population density was about 1000 people per square mile. What is the approximate area of Puerto Rico in square miles. Write your answer in scientific notation.
In the year 2013 the public debt of the United States was approximately $11,600,000,000,000. For July 2012, the census reported that 313,000,000 people lived in the United States. Convert these figures to scientific notation, and compute the average debt per person.
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