A research study reports that an average person purchases 230 cans of beans per year. If there are 275 million people in the country, how many cans of beans are purchased by the whole country each year? Use scientific notation.
To find the total number of cans of beans purchased by the whole country each year, we multiply the average number of cans purchased per person by the total number of people in the country:
230 cans/person * 275,000,000 people = 63,250,000,000 cans
Writing this number in scientific notation, we get:
6.325 x 10^10 cans
Therefore, the whole country purchases approximately 6.325 x 10^10 cans of beans each year.