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a certain city has a population of 202,079 and covers 73.2 square miles . about how many people per square mile live in the city?

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We want to know how many people per square mile live in the city. For doing so, we will do the division between the total population, and the surface of the city. This is,


\frac{202,079\text{ persons}}{73.2\text{ mi}}=2760.64\text{ persons/mi }

This means that there are 2, 760.64 persons by square miles.

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