Question

In 1950, there were 6 million television sets in the US. If the US population that year was 152.3 million, find the number of televisions per capita in the US. Express your answer rounded correctly to four decimal places.

Answer 1

When you are asked to find the number of televisions 'per capita', ti is equivalent to number of televisions 'per person'. Thus, you divide the number of televisions to the number of population. The solution is as follows:

Number of televisions per capita = 6 million/152.3 million = 0.0394 million

For better representation, that is 0.0394×10⁶ = 39,395.9291 televisions per capita.