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How many boxes of macaroni n' cheese were eaten in the United States last year?
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Ryan Brunner has over ten years of experience recruiting, interviewing, and hiring candidates in the healthcare, public service, and private manufacturing/distribution industries.
er Questions like this during your interview are meant to test your ability to deduce an answer from a very limited set of information and assumptions. You and your interviewer both know that it would be impossible for you to know or even calculate the correct answer, so your interviewer is solely looking for the factors that you use in extrapolating the answer that you give. In your answer, be as detailed as possible in why you are making the assumptions that you are when coming to a final answer.
Ryan Brunner has over ten years of experience recruiting, interviewing, and hiring candidates in the healthcare, public service, and private manufacturing/distribution industries.
"In knowing that the population in the United States is around 325 million people, my biggest factors in determining my answer will be that children between the ages of two and ten consume 75% of the mac n' cheese each year and that the other 25% is consumed by ages ten and above. The other factor is that the kids eat one box per week and the ages over ten eat two per month. So, I'll determine that there are 80 millions children between two and ten and figure that they'll eat 4.2 billion boxes. Then I'll determine that there ere 240 million people over ten that eat two per month to get 5.7 billion boxes of mac n' cheese. When added together, I'd say the final answer is right around 10 billion boxes of man n' cheese are eaten in the US each year."
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Assume that the average person in the US eats two boxes of mac and cheese per week. There are 52 weeks in a year, so the average person will consume approximately 104 boxes of mac n' cheese per year. There are about 330 million people in the United States so about 104 x 330, 000, 000 34, 200, 000, 000 boxes of mac n' cheese were consumed in the United States.
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Wow! Your answer shows that you're able to rationally and logically think through an unexpected question. It also shows that you're a quick thinker. Your answer makes a lot of sense, and any interviewer would be impressed.
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