Question

Question 4 of 5 (1 point)
5.7 Section Exercise
The amount of pollution entering the atmosphere varies directly as the number of people living
in an area. If 20,000 people create 12,500 tons of pollutants, how many tons enter the atmosphere
in a city with a population of 600,000?

Answer 1

Answer:

375,000 tons of pollutants

Step-by-step explanation:

To get this answer I divided 600,000 by 20,000 and got 30.

Then I multiplied 12,500 by 30 to get a true answer!