5) 2) In 2010, the population of the United States was 311,000,000 people and the US population ate 12,040 thousand metric tons of beef per year. In the same year, the world population was 6,853,000,000 people and the world population consumed 56,544 thousand metric tons of beef per year. If the entire population of the world ate beef at the same rate per person as the United States, then the world consumption rate would be between thousand metric tons of beef per year (a) 50,000 and 100,000 (b) 100,000 and 150,000 (c) 150,000 and 200,000 (d) 200,000 and 250,000 (e) 250,000 and 300,000