Question

4 The 2018 population of Chicago, Illinois, was 2,720,546 people. The 2018

population of Austin, Texas, was about 900,000 people. How many times
greater was the population of Chicago than Austin? Show your work.

Answer 1

3 times greater

Explanation:

To find out how many times greater the population of Chicago is than Austin, we can divide the population of Chicago by the population of Austin:

Population of Chicago / Population of Austin = 2,720,546 / 900,000

Simplifying the expression by dividing both the numerator and denominator by 100,000, we get:

Population of Chicago / Population of Austin = 27.20546 / 9

Dividing these numbers, we get:

Population of Chicago / Population of Austin = 3.022838

Therefore, the population of Chicago is about 3 times greater than the population of Austin.