Question

The state of New York has 645 Starbucks with a population of 19.89 million. Write the Starbucks per capita as a decimal to 7 places.

Answer 1

We are asked to determine the amount per capita of Starbucks. To do that we will divide the number of Starbucks by the number of inhabitants:

`(645)/(19890000)`

Solving the operation:

`0.0000324`

This is the answer per capita

In scientific notation, we move the decimal point 5 places to the right and multiply by 10 to the -5, like this:

`0.0000324=3.24*10^(-5)`