US consumes 5.03 million metric tons of bananas per year. There are 313 million people in the US there are 1000kg in 1 metric to

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n. How many KG of bananas person in a year?

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Charra [1.4K] · Answer 1 · 2022-06-13T14:54:24+03:00

Answer:

Step-by-step explanation:

Let's first start with the unit rate of how many metric tons each person eats per year, then we will convert metric tons to kg.

5.03/313 = .0160702875 metric tons of bananas per person

Using the conversion given:

.0160702875 metric tons × $\frac{1kg}{1metricton}$ = 16.07 kg per person of bananas