Question

An average person in the United States throws away 4.5 × 10–1 kg of trash per day. A single gram of trash has an average volume of 3 cm3.

How many cubic meters of trash would the average person in the United States produce each year (1 m3 = 1 × 106 cm3)?

4.9 × 10^? m3

Answer 1

@jessicatucker your calculations were quite off, yet i will tell you step by step how i did the problem.

Answer 2

first, I took your original problem, 4.5 * 10 - 1, and calculated it like so:
4.5*10=45
45-1=44

now the cubic meters, are this:
44*1000=44,000

44,000*3=132,000

Now to make it into meters:
132,000 / 100

Answer 3

and it equals: you solve it

Answer 4

Earlier i didnt give you the right answer, due to me making a mistake.

Answer 5

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