3QUESTION 3 OF 3
Answer & explanation
The official answer, with Fermi’s reasoning step by step.
Answer & explanation
Official answer
900
restaurants
How to estimate it
Fermi’s official “Napkin math”
Scotland is about 5 and a half million people. How many people per Indian restaurant? A town of 50,000 has maybe 6 or 7, so call it one per 7,000.
- Scotland's population
- ~5,500,000
- People per Indian restaurant
- ÷ 7,000
- 5,500,000 ÷ 7,000
- ≈ 800
Rounded assumptions may give a slightly different estimate. The official answer above is the game’s reference value.
Source calculation & reference
- SmartScraper UK restaurant database
- ≈ 899
- RestaurantListsHQ Scotland directory (cross-check)
- ≈ 759
- Scotland total (rounded)
- ≈ 900
Reference cited by Fermi: Business-directory counts of UK restaurants by cuisine and region (SmartScraper UK restaurant database, cross-checked against the RestaurantListsHQ Scotland directory)
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