Question

The average American eats 28 pounds of cheese a year, and the population of the U.S. was 248,709,873 in 1990. The product manager at Franklin Dairy reported tat about 2 billion punds of cheese were sold in 1990. Is this reasonable?

Answer 1

id assume this is just mental math
round 28 ->30
248 million- > 250,000,000
multiply the two
and compare with 2 billion =2,000,000,000

Answer 2

i was thinking that but i thought i was wrong. but Thank You!