Unit 2 Review 10.27.22

2. On average, Mercury is about 57,000,000 km from the sun, whereas Neptune is about 4.5 x 10^9 km from the sun. What is the difference between Neptune’s and Mercury’s distances from the sun?

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The mean distance from the sun to Earth is 9.29 x 10⁷ miles. Jupiter's mean distance from the sun is 4.8388 x 10⁸ miles. What is the difference between these two distances in miles?

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The mass of he sun is 1.989 x 10³⁰ kilograms. The mass of the earth is 5.98 x 10²⁴ kilograms. How many times bigger is the sun than the earth?

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A computer's hard disk drive holds 8 x 10⁷ bytes of information. If Jill buys an extra memory stick that holds 3 x 10⁶ bytes of information, how much memory will the computer hold?

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In 2012, New York City (NYC) and Los Angeles (LA) has the highest populations of any cities in the United States. NYC’s population was about 8.1 × 10⁶ and LA’s population was about 3.8 × 10⁶. What is the population of these two cities combined?

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The population of Mathville is 5.6 x 10³. The population of Algeville is 1.3 x 10⁴. How many more people are there in Algeville?

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A microgram is equal to 1 x 10 ^-6 grams. How many times greater than a microgram is 1 x 10² grams? 

• 1 x 10^-8
• 1 x 10^-4
• 1 x 10⁴
• 1 x 10⁸