can you slove this math question?

Question

happy burger advertises the 5% of all Americans eat at their restaurants each day. A friend did so reseach and finds that their are approximately 2500000000 american asnd approximately 7200 happy burgers resturants in the u.s


from the info determine if happy buger's claim is reasonable. why or why not and show your work

Answer 1

1. Divide 2500000000 by 100 to determine the value of 1% of this number. Answer: 25000000

2. Multiply 25000000 (or 1%) by 5 to get value of 5%. Answer: 125000000.

3. Divide the number of 5% of Americans, 125000000, by the 7200 Happy Burger stores to get an average customer attendance. Answer: 17361 (rounded from 17361.1111...)

4. Determine whether it seems reasonable that the average number of people per day served by each and every individual restaurant is 17,361 (hint: even if they were all open 24 hours a day, that would be approx. 723 people an hour)

Either Happy Burger is deliberately lying, or more likely they wrote "day" when they meant "month" or even "quarter" (a three month period often used in business to measure things like this)!

(As another poster noted...if the original figure is 250 million, not billion, it makes a difference and changes the answer. 250 million is much closer to the real population of the U.S., 250 billion is WAY off. You can use the same steps above, though, to figure out your answer. Just start with the corrected first number!)

Answer 2

The figures you have are 2.5 billion Americans in U.S.. 5% of them eat at Happy Burger and there are 7200 restaurants.
5% of 2.5 billion is 125 million. 125 million Americans eating at 7200 restaurants per day averages to MORE THAN 17,000 Americans served per restaurant each day.
Your answer is NO; it is NOT a reasonable claim.

Answer 3

I am assuming that America has 250 million people not 2.5 billion as was stated above.

Then 5% of 250,000,000 is 12,500,000
(or 250,000,000 divided by 20)

Then Take 12.5 million and divide it by 7200 restaraunts which equals to 1,736 customers per restaraunt per day.
This figure equates to 145 customers per hour over a 12 hour period on average.

This claim sounds reasonable. (I am not from America though - therefore have never heard of Happy Burger - will leave it up to someone else using these figures to decide whether it is reasonable or not).

Answer 4

2500000000 * 5%= 125,000,000 people that supposedly eat at there restaurants everyday.

There are 7200 restaurants for those 125,000,000 people to go to so:
125,000,000 / 7200= 17361 people have to go to that restaurant everyday.
It is unreasonable to think that even McDonald who has "Billions served" could even accomodate that many people per day. The restaurant would have to be huge, open 24 hours per day, and the staff and amount of food served would be astronomical.

Answer 5

Let's work on the spelling first :-)