Question

22 people fit comfortably in a 15 feet by 10 feet area. Use this value to estimate the size of a crowd that

is 10 feet deep on ONE side of the street along a 1 mile section of a parade route.

Answer 1

Explanation:

First, we need to convert the area of 15 feet by 10 feet to square feet. That is 15*10 = 150 sq ft.

We know that 22 people fit comfortably in a 150 sq ft area, so we can estimate the number of people that can fit in a given area by dividing the area by the number of square feet per person.

So if we have an area of 10 feet deep on one side of the street along a 1-mile section of a parade route, we can estimate the number of people that can fit in that area by using the following equation:

(Area of crowd) / (Square feet per person) = Number of people

We know that 1 mile = 5280 feet, so the area of the crowd is 10*5280 = 52,800 sq ft.

Now we can estimate the number of people that can fit in that area by dividing the area by the number of square feet per person:

52,800 sq ft / 150 sq ft/person = 352 people

So, we can estimate that around 352 people can fit comfortably in a crowd that is 10 feet deep on one side of the street along a 1-mile section of a parade route.