McDonald's is the king of the burger world, as it has more hamburger joints than any other restaurant chain. In 2013, McDonald's
had 14267 locations in the US. If the population of the US was approximately 316.5 million citizens in 2013, what was the number of McDonald's restaurants per capita in the US in 2013? Express your answer in scientific notation rounded correctly to three decimal places.
It is given that in 2013, McDonald's had 14267 locations in the US. It is also given that the population of the US was approximately 316.5 million citizens in 2013. Now, we know that 316.5 million=316500000.
Therefore, in order to find the number of McDonald's restaurants per capita in the US in 2013 all that we have to do is divide the number of McDonald's restaurants in 2013 with the population of the same year.
Thus, we get, number of McDonald's restaurants per capita in the US in 2013 to be:
(the answer has been expressed in scientific notation rounded correctly to three decimal) places.
Find the LCM(lowest common multiple) of 8, 24 and 6.
The LCM of 8, 24 and 6 is 24.
We now want to turn all the denominators into 24 so we are going multiply 7/8 by 3 and 1/6 by 4. We won't need to turn the denominator of 3/24 into 24 because it's already 24
Whatever you do to the denominator you have to do to the numerator, so you also have to multiply the numerator of 7/8 by 3 and the numerator of 1/6 by 4
That now results in 21/8 + 2 3/24 + 6 4/24
Now you have to add all the fractions together which is going to equal to 28/24
Because 28/24 is more than the whole, subtract 28 from 24 which gives us 4. That 4 is now our new numerator
We are now going to all the whole numbers 6+2+1=9. Incase you're wondering, the '1' came from the 28/24
The answer you should get should be 9 4/24 or if it should be simplified it would be 9 1/6
