The land area of a country is about 2.0 Million square miles and the population is about 700 million people. What is the average population density? I have to show in dimensional analysis form.

Would it be 2mil/700mil?

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The land area of a country is about 2.0 Million square  miles and the population is about 700 million people. What is the average population density?  I have to show in dimensional analysis form.

Would it be 2mil/700mil?

anonymous · Answer

700m/2m, you want people per squarre miles. AKA people/miles^2.

anonymous · Answer

OK- I was thinking it was 2M/7M and I wasn't getting a good answer. Other problems I worked seem to be the opposite so it was throwing me off. Thanks!