Question

Your favorite music artist is inside Best Buy signing autographs. If you are at the back of a single fileline that is 2 miles out the door, how many people are ahead of you? Each person takes up 18 inches.

Answer 1

there are 7372 people ahead of you

The first thing we will do is state the parameters we are given:

Your location is 2miles from the door.

Each person takes 18inches.

To know the number of people ahead, we will find how many inches make up a mile.

1 mile = 66360inches

`\begin{gathered} 2\text{ miles = 2}*66360\text{ } \\ =\text{ 132720 inches} \end{gathered}`

Since 1 person = 18inches, the number of persons on that line would be:

`\begin{gathered} =\text{ }(132720)/(18) \\ =\text{ 7373 approxi}mately \end{gathered}`

There are 7373 people on the line.

The number of people ahead of you = 7373-1 = 7372

But, there are 7372 people ahead of you