Final answer:
To find out how many $30,000 cars Walmart's 2015 revenue could buy per minute, one must divide the total revenue ($482 billion) by the price of one car and then further divide by the number of minutes in a year, resulting in approximately 32 cars per minute.
Step-by-step explanation:
The question asks us to calculate how many $30,000 cars could be bought with Walmart's reported revenue of $482 billion for the year 2015 and to express this number in terms of cars per minute. This is a division problem where we take the total revenue and divide it by the cost of one car, and then convert the result from a yearly figure to a per-minute figure.
First, we calculate how many $30,000 cars can be bought with $482 billion:
- Total revenue: $482,000,000,000
- Price per car: $30,000
- Number of cars = Total revenue ÷ Price per car = $482,000,000,000 ÷ $30,000 = 16,066,666.67 cars
Since we want to find out the number of cars bought per minute, we need to know how many minutes there are in a year:
- Minutes in a year: 525,600 minutes (365 days * 24 hours/day * 60 minutes/hour)
- Cars per minute = Number of cars ÷ Minutes in a year = 16,066,666.67 ÷ 525,600 ≈ 30.57 cars/minute
The closest whole number to 30.57 cars per minute, which is one of the given options, is 32. Therefore, the answer is (d) 32 cars could be purchased per minute with Walmart's reported revenue for 2015.