Question

an outbreak of illness due to ice cream contaminated with the bacteria salmonella has occurred. if the total population at that time was 232,000,000 and the outbreak affected an estimated 2,510,000 people.

Answer 1

Given:

`\begin{gathered} \text{Total population= 232000000} \\ \text{Affected people=2510000} \end{gathered}`

We are to solve for the number of people that are affected out of every 100,000 people.

Therefore, let us solve for the ratio of the affected people over the total population then multiply it by 100000people.

`(2510000)/(232000000)*100000=(251000000000)/(232000000)=1081.89655\approx1082(nearestwhole\text{ nimber)}`

Hence, 1082 people out of 100,000 people were affected.