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There are approximately 2.7 million deaths per year in country A. Express this quantity as deaths per minute

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There would be 5 deaths per minute.
To solve this, I divided the number of deaths in a year by the number of days in a year. I then divided the product by how many minutes are in a day.

2.7 million divided by 365 = 7,397
7,397 divided by 1440 = 5
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