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OpenStudy (anonymous):

suppose a sheet of 100 stamps is 0.78 millimiters thick. If a stack of sheets contains 100,000,000 stamps, how many millimiters thick is the stack? Write the answer in scientific notation.

OpenStudy (bibby):

you have two proprtions 100stamps 100,000,000 stamps --------- = ------------ 0.78mm ?? mm

OpenStudy (anonymous):

You cross out two zeros from 100,000,000 because of the zeros from 100 then multiply .78 mm by 1,000,000 and you should get 780,000

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