Question

Humans shed about three million particles of skin every five hours. Humans can shed about fifty thousand particles of skin every five minutes. The approximate number of particles of skin a human can shed in five hours can be written in the form a × 10b, where a is 3 and b is____. The approximate number of particles of skin a human can shed in five minutes can be written in the form a × 10b, where a is 5 and b is ____. Humans shed approximately ____ times more particles of skin in five hours than in five minutes.

Answer 1

Answer:

for 5 hours: b is 6

for 5 minutes: b is 4

60 times more skin in 5 hours than 5 minutes

Step-by-step explanation:

I think it should be written as a x 10^b, so I'm going to answer it that way.  

3 x 10^6 = 5 times 10^6

   10^6 = 1,000,000, so we have 3 x 1,000,000 = 3,000, 000

5 x 10^4 = 5 times 10^4

   10^4 = 10,000, so we have 5 x 10,000 = 50, 000

For part 3, divide 3 million by 50 thousand to find the scalar multiple

   3,000,000/50,000 = 300/5 = 60