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Operationswith Scientific Notation
Operationswith Scientific Notation
Operationswith Scientific Notation
Solve. Show your work. Write your final answer in a complete sentence.
1) California has a population of approximately 4 × 107 people and South Dakota
has a population of approximately 8 × 105 people.
a) How many more people live in California than in South Dakota? Write your final
answer in scientific notation.
Which operation did you use to solve this problem? How did you know that was the
right one?
b) How many times greater is the population in California than in South Dakota?
Which operation did you use to solve this problem? How did you know that was the
right one?