
Answer:
70.45 gallons per capita per day
Step-by-step explanation:
Per capita means for each person. Â so for instance if each person int he city generated one gallon per day it would be 39,458 per day. Â
In other words we want to know how much each person would have to produce per day to make 2.78 million per day. Â So the idea is 39458 has to be multiplied by something to get 2.78 milion. Â There you just use algebra.
39458x = 2,780,000
x = 2780000/39458
x = 70.45
So each person on average uses 70.45 gallons per day. Â You can check too by multiplying this by 39458 representing each person. Â