The Solar System
Jupiter is 483,800,000 miles away from the sun. What is this number in scientific notation?
4.838 x 108 miles
The average person produces 1 x 104 gallons of saliva in their entire lifetime. How many gallons of saliva is that in standard form?
10,000 gallons of saliva (which is about 83,500 lbs!!!)
Michael Jordan scored 32,292 points in his entire NBA career. How is this number expressed in scientific notation?
3.2292 x 104 points
Americans eat nearly 50,000,000,000 hamburgers a year. How can this be expressed in scientific notation?
5.0 x 1010 hamburgers a year
On YouTube, the Sharkeisha video has been watched 2.197445 x 10 6 times. What is this number in standard form?
2,197,445 views
The Earth weighs 4.588 x 1024 tons. What is this number in standard form?
4,588,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 tons
In the average human lifetime, a person will unintentionally eat 80 insects while asleep. What is this number in scientific notation?
8.0 x 10 insects (gross!)
Peyton Manning had 5.47 x 103 passing yards in 2013. Russell Wilson threw for 3.35 x 103 passing yards in 2013. How many more passing yards did Manning have than Wilson in 2013? Express your answer in scientific notation
Manning had 2.12 x 103 (2,120) more passing yards than Wilson. Manning is GOOD!
A grain of salt is about 3.3 x 10-4 meters wide. How is this number expressed in standard form?
0.00033 m (or 0.33 mm - that's tiny)
On average, teens spend 1.825 x 104 hours a year playing video games. What is this number in standard form?
18,250 hours a year (that's 2.08 hours per day)
Astronomers estimate there are over 100,000,000,000 stars in the Milky Way. What is this number in scientific notation?
1.0 x 1011 stars
You blink about 15,000 times a day. How many times do you blink in a year? Express your answer in scientific notation.
5.475 x 106 blinks a year
A professional soccer player hits a soccer ball at about 3.537 x 105 feet per second? Express this in standard form
353,700 ft/sec
Taco Bell's "Taco Salad" has 5.2 x 10 grams of fat. That is about as much fat is in 5 tacos. About how many grams of fat are in one taco? Leave your answer in standard form.
10.4 grams of fat
Bill Gates has about $61,000,000,000. How much would he have left if he donated half of his money to SJNCS? Express your answer in scientific notation.
3.05 x 1010 dollar!
The average temperature of Uranus is -1.93 x 10-2 degrees C during the day. The average temperature of Earth in degrees C during the day is 2.0 x 10. Which planet is colder?
Uranus
It takes 1.2 x 10 hours to build a Toyota. How many Toyotas could you make in one day?
2 Toyotas could be built in one day.
In last year's Super Bowl, Americans spent about $184 million on potato chips and $40 million on pretzels. How much money did Americans spend on potato chips and pretzels? Express your answer in scientific notation.
$2.24 x 108
There are 3.74 x 109 sticks of chewing gum made each year. What is that in standard form?
3,740,000,000 stick of chewing gum
Each frame in a move is 0.04167 seconds. Express this number in scientific notation.
4.167 x 10-2 seconds
It takes Uranus 6.0155 x 10 ^ 4 days to travel around the sun. What is this in standard form?
60,155 days (which is about 164.8 years!)
On average, 100 people choke to death on ballpoint pens every year. Also, more than 6,000 people with pillow-related injuries check into U.S. emergency rooms every year. How many more people have pillow related injuries than people who choke on ballpoint pens? Express your answer in scientific notation.
There are 5.9 x 103 times more pillow related injuries than ball point pen death incidents.
Rockets legend, Hakeem "The Dream" Olajuwon, has 3.83 x 103 blocks in his NBA career. How many blocks did he have expressed in standard form.
3,830 blocks in his career
According to McDonald's, they sell 75 burgers every second of every minute of every hour of every single day. How many burgers do they sell in a minute? Write your answer in scientific notation.
4.5 x 103 burgers sold every minute
Wifi speeds can be as fast as 1.67 x 10-12 seconds per bit. Express this number in standard form.
0.00000000000167 seconds per bit! That's Fast!