[1_Rain_Drop]

Doesn’t matter whether there’s a M or not. The answer remains the same.

If:

5.00/3.27=1.5290

Then how does one figure that 500M/327M = one dollar and fifty three cents?

[roadcat]

Then how does one figure that 500M/327M = one dollar and fifty three cents?

Back to basics. Put the formula in English terms:

$500 Million Dollars divided by 327 Million People

The "Million" in the numerator (top) is cancelled out by the "Million" in the denominator (bottom) of the fraction.

What you are left with is $1.53 (dollars signified by the dollar sign) per person (signified by the "People" term).

$1.53 is a dollar and fifty-three cents.

[moonhawk]

You ansered your own question.

500 million DOLLARS divided by 300 million PEOPLE =

1.529 DOLLARS per PERSON.

1.529 DOLLARS rounds up to $1.53.

QED ( Latin for That which was to be demonstrated) (or something)

If you don’t believe me, Just ask mini-Mike for your million dollars.

Of course, he might give you two million, since Uncle Joe shot half the population with his assault rifle.

I won’t confuse you any further trying to explain how that works....

[rb22982]

Are you trolling or drunk/high?

[Eccl 10:2]

“Then how does one figure that 500M/327M = one dollar and fifty three cents?”

Wow. Assuming you are serious:

Substitute any number for M. Start with 1. What do you get?