Question

The land area of a country is about 3.5 million square miles and the population is about 200 million people. What is the average population density?

Answer 1

So the Population density of this place is 800 million people / 3.5 million miles squared

Which equals: 228.57 people / square mile

Answer 2

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Answer:

  about 57.1 persons per square mile

Step-by-step explanation:

To find persons per square mile, divide persons by square miles:

  (200 million persons)/(3.5 million mi^2) = (200/3.5) persons/mi^2

  ≈ 57.1 persons/mi^2