Question

In 1950, there were 6 million television sets in the US. If the US population that year was 152.3 million, find the number of televisions per capita in the US. Express your answer rounded correctly to four decimal places

Answer 1

Since we are asked to find per capita, therefore this means that we have to simply divide the total number of televisions by the total US population. Therefore:

tv per capita = 6 million / 152.3 million

tv per capita = 0.03940