I really need help in answering the steps and the answer to this question?
In a recent year, North Carolina produced 1,300,000,000 pounds of turkey. This was 18.6% of the U.S. total in that year. Calculate the U. S. total turkey production for that year. Round to the nearest billion.
Please if you can provide the steps to this problem.
Solve for x.
0.186x = 1.3 billion
x = 6.989 billion
This is the last question I also need help with:
During 1 year, approximately 2,240,000 ounces of gold went into the manufacturing of electronic equipment in the United State. This is 16% of all the gold mined in the United States that year. How many ounces of gold were mined in the United States that year?
Use the same principles on this problem as I used on the last. We'll be glad to check your answer.
so would it be 0.16 x 2,240,000 = ?
100% = 2,240,000
0.16 = x
x= (2,240,000 x 0.16)/100%
Your answer doesn't make any sense. Your calculations indicate that only 358,000 ounces of gold is mined in the U.S.
Your problem states that over 2 million ounces of gold is used in the electronics industry. And that is only 16% of the total mined in the U.S. Obviously, over 12 million ounces of gold is mined.
You need to find what 16% of something = 2,240,000. Study this:
0.16x = 2,240,000
Divide both sides by 0.16
x = 14,000,000 ounces
To calculate the U.S. total turkey production for the year based on the information given, you can follow these steps:
Step 1: Determine the percentage of North Carolina's turkey production out of the U.S. total.
The problem states that North Carolina's turkey production was 18.6% of the U.S. total. Since 1,300,000,000 pounds represents 18.6% of the U.S. total, we can set up the following equation:
1,300,000,000 = 0.186 * U.S. total
Step 2: Solve the equation for the U.S. total turkey production.
To find the U.S. total, divide both sides of the equation by 0.186:
U.S. total = 1,300,000,000 / 0.186
Step 3: Round the U.S. total to the nearest billion.
Divide the U.S. total by 1,000,000,000 and round the result to the nearest whole number.
Using a calculator, the U.S. total turkey production can be calculated as follows:
U.S. total ≈ 1,300,000,000 / 0.186 ≈ 6,989,247,312. the U.S. total turkey production is approximately 6,989,247,312 pounds.
Rounding this number to the nearest billion, the U.S. total turkey production for that year would be approximately 7 billion pounds.