Question

PLz Help for a Free MEDAL!!!! Samuel can type nearly 40 words per minute. Use this information to find the number of hours it would take him to type 2.6 x 10 exponent5 scientific Notation! Is my math lesson plz help !

Answer 1

40 words a minute is \(40\times 60=2400=2.4\times 10^3\) words an hour

Answer 2

your job it to compute
\[\frac{2.6\times 10^5}{2.4\times 10^3}\]

Answer 3

2.4 times 10^3 ??? @satellite73

Answer 4

that is what 40 words a minute is in words per hour

Answer 5

So I Multiple those Numbers How Would I Change 10^3 Into something Multipliable?

Answer 6

don't multiply, divide

Answer 7

I Don't Understand

Answer 8

lets go slow, but then quick

Answer 9

ok

Answer 10

if you can type 2400 words an hour, then in two hours you can type 4800 words, and in three hours you can type \(3\times 2400\) and in 4 hours you can type \(4\times 2400\) words

Answer 11

you want to know how long to type \(2.6\times 10^5=260,000\) words

Answer 12

Yes

Answer 13

to do that you need to divide
\[260,000\div 2400\]

Answer 14

in scientific notation that is
\[\frac{2.6\times 10^5}{2.4\times 10^3}\] divide the numbers in front, subtract the exponents