Scientific Notation Operations

Multiply:
(9.4 x 10⁶)(3.2 x 10⁵)

• 30.08 x 10¹¹

• 3.8 x 10¹

• 3.008 x 10¹²

• 2.9375 x 10¹

(9.6×10^-8)÷(2×10^-15)

• -4.8×10⁷

• 4.8×10⁷

• 4.8×10^-7

• -4.8×10^-7

Multiply:
(3.4 x 10⁵)(1.2 x 10^-3)

• 4.08 x 10^-8

• 4.8 x 10²

• 4.08 x 10²

• 4.08 x 10^-15

How would you write -5.6 x 10^-3 in standard form?

• 0.0056

• -5,600

• 0.00056

• -0.0056

Write 9.8 x 10^-5 in standard form

• 0.00098

• 0.000098

• .098

• 98,000

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

• 7.5 × 10⁶ t-shirts

• 7.5 × 10⁴ t-shirts

• 75 × 10⁵ t-shirts

• none of these

The US spends an average of 1.02x10⁴ dollars on each student per year.  There are about 7.6x10⁷ students in the US.  About how much money total is spent on students per year?

• 7.752 x 10¹¹

• 7.752 x 10²⁸

• 8.62 x 10¹¹

• 8.62 x 10²⁸

As part of a community service project, a class planted 7x10⁵  trees in a year.  If there are 3.5x10³ students in the school, how many trees did each student plant?

• 2 x 10⁸

• 2 x 10²

• 3.5 x 10⁸

• 3.5 x 10²

If a computer can perform an addition operation in 1.5 x 10^-6 seconds, how long will it take to perform 1500 such operations?

• 2.25 x 10^-3 seconds

• 2.25 x 10^-6 seconds

• 2.25 seconds

• 2.25 x 10⁶ seconds

Change from standard form to scientific notation: 0.004078

• 4.078  x  10^-3

• 4.078  x  10³

• 40.78  x  10^-4

• .4078  x  10^-2