Texas A&M University (TAMU) PHLT 301 Biomedical Sciences Study Abroad Exam 1 Practice

Per capita spending shows how much a state allocates for a program for each resident, by dividing total expenditures by the state's population. This normalization lets you compare across states of different sizes. In this case, the per-person amount for Oregon and New York falls in a range that makes sense for state public health funding—roughly around seventy dollars per person. The other options are not plausible for typical annual state public health budgets: numbers that are far too small wouldn’t cover basic program costs, while numbers that are much larger would be unusually high. So, the statement that they spend about seventy dollars per person best fits what per-capita spending data usually show.