Question

US consumes 5.03 million metric tons of bananas per year. There are 313 million people in the US there are 1000kg in 1 metric ton. How many KG of bananas person in a year?

Answer 1

Explanation:

Let's first start with the unit rate of how many metric tons each person eats per year, then we will convert metric tons to kg.

5.03/313 = .0160702875 metric tons of bananas per person

Using the conversion given:

.0160702875 metric tons ×
`(1kg)/(1metricton)` = 16.07 kg per person of bananas