Question

Use the calculator to find the product. (9.1 × 109)(7.5 × 102) what is the exponent of the power in scientific notation?

Answer 1

The exponent of the power in the scientific notation of the result of the expression (9.1 × 10^9)(7.5 × 10^2) is 12

How does scientific notations work?

The number is written in the form $a \times 10^b$ where we have $1 \leq a < 10$

The number b shows the order, which is the most important figure for which scientific notation is used. It tells us how much order large or small a value is in powers of 10. We can for a time, ignore the value of 'a' for two comparable quantities and only compare their orders(this type of comparison is useful when difference is too big, like size of human to size of a star etc sort of comparisons).

Scientific notations have some of the profits as:

• Better readability due to compact representation
• Its value in terms of power of 10 is known, which helps in easy comparison of quantities differing by a large value.

Expressing the multiplication of (9.1 × 10^9)(7.5 × 10^2) in terms of scientific notation, we get:

$(9.1 0\times 10^9)(7.5 \times 10^2) = 9100000000 \times 750 = 6825000000000\\(9.1 0\times 10^9)(7.5 \times 10^2) = 6.825 \times 10^{12}$(the exponent is 12)

Thus, the exponent of the power in the scientific notation of the result of the expression (9.1 × 10^9)(7.5 × 10^2) is 12

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Answer 2

Answer:= The exponent is 12

Step-by-step explanation:(9.1 × 10^9)(7.5 × 10^2)

When multiplying terms in scientific notation, we multiply the numbers in front and add the exponents

(a* 10^b) (c* 10^d) = ac * 10^(b+d)

(9.1 × 10^9)(7.5 × 10^2) = (9.1*7.5) * 10^(9+2)

                                                =68.25 * 10^11

But this is not proper scientific notation.  We can only have 1 number in front of the decimal.  We need to move the decimal 1 place to the right.  That adds 1 to the exponent.

=68.25 * 10^11  = 6.825 * 10^(11+1)

                           = 6.825 * 10^12