Molecules of Carbon Dioxide in a Sample

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Carbon dioxide comprises, on average, about 397 parts per million of the Earth's atmosphere, on a molecular basis. In an even sample of the Earth's atmosphere consisting of 4 billion molecules, approximately how many of those molecules would be expected to be carbon dioxide? (1 billion = 1,000,000,000)