The US consumes an average of 5.77 million metric tons of bananas per year. There are 301 million people in the US and there are 1000 kg in 1 metric ton.

Round answer (except last one) to three significant digits.
(1848576 with 3 SD's becomes 1850000 = 1.85E6)

How many kilogram of bananas are consumed per person in a year?

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Answer:

  19.2 kg/person/year

Step-by-step explanation:

[tex]\dfrac{5.77\cdot 10^6\,T}{1\,US\cdot year}\cdot\dfrac{1000\,kg}{1\,T}\cdot\dfrac{1\,US}{3.01\cdot 10^8\,persons}=\dfrac{5.77\cdot 10^6\cdot 1000\,kg}{3.01\cdot 10^8\,person\cdot year}\\\\\approx 19.2\,\text{kg/person/year}[/tex]