Question

In 2006, there were 285 million television sets in the US. If the US population that year was 298.4 million, find the number of televisions per capita in the US. Express your answer rounded correctly to four decimal places.

Answer 1

The number of televisions per capital is calculated by dividing the number of television sets by the total US population. In this case, we divide the 285 million television sets by the population of 298.4 million. This gives a result of 0.9551 televisions per capita.

Note that this method (dividing the number by the population) also is used for calculating the per capita of many other things like GDP.