Question

The 2014-15 Brisbane City Council budget included 179 million dollars for public parks. If only 42 percent of Brisbane's 2.1 mllion residents value and use public parks, how much do these residents need to individually value the parks for this to be an efficient use of funds? Answer to the nearest whole dollar per resident (with no decimal points, spaces, S signs, or commas in your answer).

Could anyone help me check this？ I thought this answer is wrong

Answer 1

Considering that only 42% of the population use and value the park, thus we can assume that the bugetory allocation for the parks which is $179 millons is to most benefit this 42% population. Thus for the efficient use of the funds, one is correct to calculate the individual value of the park by dividing the total budget by number of redidents value the park. Thus the method to calculate dollar per residents seems to be correct.