Standard and Scientific Notation
Write 24509 in scientific notation.
What is 2.4509 X 10^4?
In 2006, the US had a Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of 1.313 x 10^13. The United Kingdom had a GDP of 1.93 x 10^12. What were the combined GDPs of the US and the UK in 2006?
What is 1.506 X 10^13?
A factory can make 3 x 10^4 t-shirts per day, how many t-shirts will it make in 2.5 x 10^2 days?
What is 7.5 X 10^6 shirts?
Write -8.56 X 10^-4 in standard notation.
What is -0.000856?
According to scientists, the mass of the earth is 5.98 X 10^24 kilograms. The mass of the sun is 1.989 X 10^30 kilograms. How much greater is the mass of the sun than the mass of the earth?
What is 1.98899402 X 10^30 kilograms?
The US spends on average 10,200 dollars on each student per year. There are about 77,000,000 students in the United States. About how much money total is spent on students each year?
What is $8.624 X 10^11?
The size of a very fine grain of sand is about 9.35 x 10^-3. Write this number in standard notation form.
What is 0.00935?
The population of the United States is expected to be 392 million people by 2050. Write this number in scientific notation.
What is 3.92 X 10^8 people?
A blue whale can eat 3 x 108 krill in a day. All of that krill weighs approximately 6.3 x 109 pounds. About how much does each krill weigh? Give your answer in standard form.
What is 21 pounds?
NASA's Apollo program lasted nine years and cost $25,000,000,000. Write this number in scientific notation.
What is $2.5 x 10^10?
About 8.73 X 10^8 people in the world speak Mandarin. About 3.22 x 10^8 speak Spanish. In scientific notation, how many more people speak Mandarin than Spanish?
What is 5.51 X 10^8 people?
During the school year, each student planted 2 x 10^2 trees as part of a community service project. If there are 3.5 x 10^3 students in the school, how many trees did they plant in total?
What is 7 X10^5 trees?