Question

Estimate the size of a crowd that is 11 feet deep on both sides of a street and 3,444 feetlong using the rule of thumb that each person occupies 2.5 square feet.Remember you can't have part of a person so use appropriate rounding to get thenearest whole person.

Answer 1

Rich, this is the solution:

Step 1: Let's find the area of each rectangle, as follows:

Length of the rectangle = 3,444 feet

Width of the rectangle = 11 feet

Area = 3,444 * 11

Area = 37,884 feet²

Step 2: Let's duplicate the area because people will stand at both sides of the avenue, in consequence:

Total area = 2 * 37,884

Total area = 75,768

Step 3: For finding the size of the crowd, we divide:

Total area/Area occupied by each person

75,768/2.5 = 30,308 (rounding to the nearest whole person)

The size of the crowd is 30,308 people, Rich. But we don't know if they're all adults or they are also children, that information was not given.