The sanitation department calculated that last year each city resident produced approximately 1.643 × 103 pounds of garbage. The
2 answers:
Given that, according to sanitation departments report; the samount of garbage produced by 1 resident pound.
Given that population of the city
Now we have to find how much garbage did the city sanitation department collect last year.
To find that we just need to multiply the garbage produced by 1 resident with the population of the city.
Total garbage collected pounds
Total garbage collected pounds
Total garbage collected pounds
Hence final answer is pounds.
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