Problema Solution
Each year your city has a large one day street festival that draws a big crowd. The festival is help along a 40 block stretch of a street that is two miles and about 70 feet across. The festival organizers predict 1.1 million people for this years event. Which is a more realistic estimate, knowing the area will be filled with a loose crowd (10 Suarez feet per person) all day, assuming the on adverse everyone stays for half the time ?
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1 mi = 5280 ft
2 mi = 2*5280 ft
The area of the street is:
A = 2*5280*70
A = 739,200 ft^2
Let 'x' represent the number of people.
10x <= 739,200
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x <= 73,920 people
Assuming that each person stays 0.5 hours on the street and there are 24 hours in the day, the total number of people will be not more than:
73920*24/0.5 = 354,8160 people