The land area of Statesville, NC, is 20.5 square miles. If the entire US population (currently about 320.2 million) were put inside the city limits of Statesville, determine the number of square feet that each person would have. Round your answer to two decimal places. [Hint: Remember that a mile is 5,280 feet, so a square mile is (5,280 x 5,280) square feet.]
0.00 square feet per person
1.56 square feet per person
0.78 square feet per person
1.78 square feet per person
0.56 square feet per person
Well, let's do the math! If the land area of Statesville is 20.5 square miles and each square mile is 5,280 x 5,280 square feet, then the total area of Statesville in square feet would be 20.5 x (5,280 x 5,280) square feet.
Now, to find out how many square feet each person would have if the entire US population were put inside Statesville, we need to divide the total area of Statesville by the population. So, it would be (20.5 x (5,280 x 5,280)) / 320,200,000 square feet per person.
Calculating that, we get approximately 0.56 square feet per person.
So, each person would have about 0.56 square feet of space in Statesville. That's not a lot of room! You better get cozy with your neighbors if that ever happens!
To determine the number of square feet per person, we need to calculate the total area in square feet and divide it by the population.
First, let's calculate the total area in square feet:
20.5 square miles * (5,280 feet/mile) * (5,280 feet/mile) = 20.5 * 5,280 * 5,280 = 545,424,000 square feet
Now, we divide the total area by the population:
545,424,000 square feet / 320,200,000 people = 1.7035 square feet per person
Rounded to two decimal places, each person would have approximately 1.70 square feet.
Therefore, the correct answer is: 1.70 square feet per person.
To determine the number of square feet that each person would have if the entire US population were put inside the city limits of Statesville, we first need to calculate the total land area of Statesville in square feet.
Given that the land area of Statesville is 20.5 square miles, and we know that a square mile is (5,280 x 5,280) square feet, we can now calculate the total land area in square feet.
Total land area of Statesville = 20.5 square miles x (5,280 feet x 5,280 feet)
Total land area of Statesville = 20.5 x (5,280 x 5,280) square feet
Total land area of Statesville = 20.5 x (27,878,400) square feet
Total land area of Statesville = 570,252,000 square feet
Now we can calculate the number of square feet per person by dividing the total land area by the US population.
Number of square feet per person = Total land area of Statesville / US population
Number of square feet per person = 570,252,000 square feet / 320,200,000 people
Number of square feet per person ≈ 1.78 square feet
Rounding the answer to two decimal places, we find that each person would have approximately 1.78 square feet of space if the entire US population were put inside the city limits of Statesville.
Therefore, the correct answer is 1.78 square feet per person.