Question

The average household uses 5 bags of sugar per household per month Each bag of sugar weighs 4 pounds. Assume that that there are 2 people in each household on average and that the US population is 300 million.

Round answers to three significant digits except last answer.
Example: 450,543,929 becomes 4.51E8 whre 4.51 is the significant digits.

How many pounds of sugar does the US consume per month?​

Answer 1

Answer:
`\bold{3* 10^9}`

Explanation:

`5\ bags * (4\ lbs)/(1\ bag)* (300,000,000\ people\ US)/(2\ people\ household)=3,000,000,000\\\\\\=3* 10^9`

The smallest number of significant digits is 1 digit.