Question

Canada is the king of the doughnut world, as it has more doughnut shops per capita than any other country in the world. Tim Hortons, the most popular doughnut joint in Canada, had 3660 locations in Canada in 2015. If the population of Canada was approximately 35.75 million citizens in 2015, what was the number of Tim Hortons stores per capita in Canada in 2015?

Express your answer in scientific notation rounded correctly to three decimal places.

Answer 1

Number of Tim Hortons stores per capita is
`1.024* 10^(-4)`

Explanation:

Canada is having more doughnut shops per capita than any other country in the world means availability of Horton's store per person are more.

Number of Hortons stores in Canada = 3660

Population of Canada in 2015 = 35.75 million

In scientific notation population =
`35.75* 10^(6)`

Now stores per person =
`(3660)/(35.75* 10^(6))`

(To calculate stores per capita we will divide number of stores by population of Canada)

Stores per capita =
`102.377* 10^(-6)=1.024* 10^(-4)`

So the answer is
`1.024* 10^(-4)`

Answer 2

The correct answer is 1.024 x 10^-4.

Per capita means the number of schools per person. There are more people than stores, so the number must be lower than 1.

To find the rate, we divide the total number of stores by the population.

3660 / 35750000 = .0001024 = 1.024 x 10^-4