Chapter 3.1, Problem 53E

In Exercises $53$ and $54$, use the fact that at the beginning of $1998$, the population of the United States was $268,924,000$ people and growing at the rate of $1,856,000$ people per year.

Gas Consumption. At the beginning of $1998$, the annual per capita consumption of gasoline in the United States was $52.3$ gallons and growing at the rate of $.2$ gallons per year. At what rate was the total annual consumption of gasoline in the United States increasing at that time? (Hint: $\left[totalannualconsumption\right]=\left[population\right]\cdot \left[annualpercapitaconsumption\right]$)