One rule of thumb for estimating crowds is that each person occupies 2.3 square feet. Use this value to estimate the size of a crowd that is 8 feet wide on both sides of the street standing along a 4.1-mile section of a parade route.

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Cristofer Bond

Mathematics

4 May, 16:17

One rule of thumb for estimating crowds is that each person occupies 2.3 square feet. Use this value to estimate the size of a crowd that is 8 feet wide on both sides of the street standing along a 4.1-mile section of a parade route.

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Lyric Gross · Answer 1

150,595

Step-by-step explanation:

First, convert miles to feet:

4.1 mi * (5280 ft/mi) = 21648 ft

The area that the crowd takes up is:

2 * 8 ft * 21648 ft = 346368 ft²

The number of people is:

346368 ft² * (1 person / 2.3 ft²) = 150594.8

Rounding to the nearest integer, there are approximately 150,595 people in the crowd.