Math Question!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! HELP! 8th Grade Math ?

Question

ok so The Population of deleware was 783,600 and covers 1,953 square miles of land. North Carolina's land area is 48,710 sq mi. and the popultion was 8,049,313. Which state had a bigger number of people per square mile? PLEASE HELP ME! i dont understand this AT ALL

Answer 1

Delaware has more ppl sq miles cause 783,600 over 1,953 sq miles of land means 401 ppl take up one sq mile and north Carolina is 165 ppl per sq mile so the answer is Delaware.

Answer 2

The way to solve this question is to divide the number of ppl to the size of the land. This will put u in units of people per square mile.

783600/ 1953

= 401.2289 rounding per person gives you

401 ppl per square mile for Deleware

8049313/ 48710

=165.25 rounding gives

165 ppl per square mile for North Carolina

This means Deleware has the most people per square mile