Question

The country of Honduras has a population of 8.2 million. There were 7,172 homicide deaths there in 2014. a) Express the deaths per capita as a decimal. Round to 6 decimal places. b) Express the deaths per capita in Scientific Notation (using the digits you typed in part a). Type your answer as though you were typing it into your calculator--either with "E" or "x10^" notation-- no spaces in your answer!c) The United States has a population of about 320 million. If our homicide deaths were proportional to that of Honduras, how many deaths would we expect in the United States due to homicides? Round to the nearest person.

Answer 1

Population = 8.2 million = 8,200,000

Homicides = 7,172

a) Deaths per capita = Homicides / Population = 7,172 /8,200,000 = 0.000875 deaths per capita

b) 8.75 x 10 ^-4

c) Population : 320 million : 320,000,000

7,172 /8,200,000 = x / 320,000,000

Cross multiply:

320,000,000 ( 7,172 ) = 8,200,000 x

320,000,000 ( 7,172 ) / 8,200,000 = x

x = 279,883 Deaths