An average person in the United States throws away 4.5 × 10² g of trash per day. In 2013, there were about 3.2×106 people in the

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Slav-nsk [51]

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An average person in the United States throws away 4.5 × 10² g of trash per day. In 2013, there were about 3.2×106 people in the

U.S.
About how many grams of trash was thrown away in the United States in 2013?

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gogolik [260] · Answer 1 · 2021-12-13T19:41:34+03:00

gogolik [260]4 years ago

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Since there are 4.5*10^2 grams of trash per day per person, we multiply that by 3.2*10^6 for everyone in the US and then multiply that by 365 to get how much in a year, which is <span>525600000000 or 5.256*10^11 (I think it's 11)</span>