Problema Solution

There were 305 million crimes commited in the United States in 2008. Express this quantity in terms of crimes per second and crimes per American

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since 2008 is a leap year (4|2008) thus it has 366 days or


1 year = 366 days = 366*24*60*60 seconds


we need to find the rate of crimes per second


305^10^6/(366*24*60*60) = 9.65 crimes per second


In 2008, it is an estimated that 304,095,000 lived in America so the average of crimes per person will be


305,000,000/304,095,000 = 1 crime per American.