Is it in Scientific Notation?
Tomorrow you plan to download songs off iTunes. The size of your download is approximately 2.5 x 10^3 MB. Last week you downloaded 5.0 x 10^6 MB. What is the total amount of storage you have used with these downloads?
5.0 x 10^6 MB + 2.5 x 10^3 MB = 5.0025 × 10^6
The mass of Earth is 5.9 x 1024 kg. The mass of Pluto is 13,000,000,000,000,000,000,000kg compared to Pluto, how much greater is Earth’s mass than Pluto’s mass?
The sun produces 3.8 x 1027 joules of energy per second. How much energy is produced in a year? (Note: a year is approximately 31,000,000seconds).
The sun produces 1.178 x 1035 joules of energy in a year.