Scientific Notation Review 10.31.22

3. In the year 2000, the United States public debt was about 5.6 x 10¹² dollars.  The population of the United States in that year was about 2.8 x 10⁸ people.  What was the average debt per person?

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4. Find the combined mass of Earth and Venus. Earth is approximately 5.9 x 10²⁴ kg and Venus is approximately 4.9 x 10²⁴ kg.

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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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5. The Colorado Department of Education spent about 4.408 x 10⁹ in fiscal year 2004-2005 on public schools.  There were about 7.6 x 10⁵ students enrolled in public school.  What was the average spending per student? 

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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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There are approximately 3.1 x 10⁸ people in the United States. If each person has 4.1 x 10¹ coins, how many coins are there altogether?

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By area, Russia is the largest country in the world. It has an area of 8.649 x 10⁶ square miles. Canada is second with 4.797 x 10⁶ square miles. What is the difference in area?

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A factory can make 3 × 10⁴ t-shirts per day, how many t-shirts will it make in 2.5 ×10² days?

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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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