In the year 2000, there were 8.7 deaths per 1000 residents in the united states. if there were 281,421,906 residents in the u. s. during 2000, how many people died that year?

Mrs. avila is buying a wallpaper border to go on all of her kitchen walls. she wants to buy 5 extra feet of wallpaper border than she needs to be sure she has enough. she buys 55.5 feet of the border. the store owner selling the border uses the width of mrs. avila's kitchen to determine that the length of her kitchen must be 14.5 feet.