north carolina has a population of roughly 9,222,000 people and is 53,865 square miles in size. What is the density of the population?

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 north carolina has a population of roughly 9,222,000 people and is 53,865 square miles in size. What is the density of the population?

 

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Answer 1

This is a classic case of matching the units. You're looking for density of the population (ie. Number of people per square mile).

You are given two pieces of information - total number of people (9222000 people) and total size (53865 square miles).

Total people/Total size will give you the units you're looking for: people/sq mile.

SO: 9222000 people/53865 square miles = ~171.2 people per square mile.

Most math classes don't like you to cut people into pieces, so I'd approximate it to about 171 people per square mile

 

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