Question

During a charity event, a group raises $1.62 million in one night. If there were 790 people in attendance, what isaverage money per capita that was donated? Use your answer in a sentence.

Answer 1

We have that during the event the group raised:

`1.62\cdot1000000=1620000`

Or $1,620,000.

There were 790 people that night.

Therefore, we have:

`(1620000)/(790)=2050.63`

Then, we have that it was raised, on average, about $2050.63 per person during the charity event.

[We assume here that the average money per capita is the total raised money divided by the total people that attended the charity event.]