The amounts of household waste generated in a region during two years were 23,400,000 tons and 48,100,000 tons. What was the total household waste generated over these two years in the region, expressed in scientific notation?

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mxddi3 · Answer

ok, first, add the two numbers together.

what is 23.400.000+ 48,100,000 ?

darkknight · Answer

Do you know scientific notation?
Basically you have the number and you just divide or multiply by 10 until you get that number between 1 and 10. Then you multiply that by 10^n where n is the number of times you multiplied or divided by 10.

For ex:
482000 in scientific notation is 4.82 x 10^5