How many pizzas are consumed each year in the United States? How many words have you spoken in your life? How many different peoples names appear in the New York Times each year? How many watermelons would fit inside the U.S. Capital building? What is the volume of all the human blood in the world?
Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences (ed. Penguin UK, 2014) - ISBN: 9780141980133