Use the fact that at the beginning of 1998, the population of the United States was 268,924,000 people and growing at the rate of 1,856,000 people per year.

At the beginning of 1998, the annual consumption of ice cream in the United States was 12,582,000 pints and growing at the rate of 212 million pints per year. At what rate was the annual per capita consumption of ice cream increasing at that time?

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[annual per capita consumption] = [annual consumption] [population size]