Question

Alaska is the largest state in the United States the state has an area of approximately 663000 square miles Rhode Island is the smallest state in the United States with an area of approximately 1000 square miles currently the populations of Alaska and Rhode Island or 732000 people and 1 million people respectfully if Alaska has the same number of people per square miles is Rhode Island what would its population be

Answer 1

Rhode Island has 1.06 million people living there and the reason is that part of Alaska is inhabited   the math equation is not accurate because of the inhabitation

also basically Alaska has less than a million they have 739,795  

Not sure what the teacher is asking and if she or he is looking for a math equation for the answer but that's the answer I have 

Answer 2

Answer:

If Rhode Island has about 1,000 square miles with 1,000,000 people to figure out the population per square mile, all you have to do is  1,000,000/1,000= 1,000, so there are about 1,000 people per square mile in Rhode Island. For Alaska, you would take the number of people per square mile in Rhode Island (1,000) and multiply it by the square miles of land in Alaska to get 663,000,000, so Alaska would have a population of 663 million they had the same amount of people per square mile as Rhode Island does.