Census figures - tv in homes

Your question puzzles me.

If you know the number of households ("homes") in the US, and the number of TVs, you can calculate very easily the average number of TVs in each home, by doing a simple division sum. You just divide the number of TV sets by the number of homes. If there were 250 TVs and 100 homes, the average number of TVs per home would be 250 divided by 100, which equals 2.5.



OK. You have the census figures. They told you:



and...



So you have the figures. Do the math. It is quite simple to do with pencil and paper but if necessary you could use a calculator.



I presume the people who drew up the figures thought that it would not be necessary to do such a simple, obvious calculation.

Or you could take the lazy student's way and type "TVs per household USA" into Google, and read through some of the pages you find.

What I would find equally interesting is how many people have high definition televisions, TiVo, or other recorders that record TV, and home theatre setups.

JazzieB123, I just had this funny feeling that maybe you got the figures for number of TVs in America, and number of homes in America, not from the US Census, but actually from a math assignment your teacher has set?

Please tell me I am wrong! If you really think that this is the way to do your school work, and you can't even divide one number by another, you will wind up being a janitor!

I apologise in advance if I am wrong.