Polly's parents car weighs about 3500 pounds. Samantha, Esther, and pollys each wrote the weight of the car in scientific notati

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Polly's parents car weighs about 3500 pounds. Samantha, Esther, and pollys each wrote the weight of the car in scientific notati

on. Polly wrote 35.0×10^2, Samantha wrote 0.35×10^4, Esther wrote 3.5×10^4. A. Which of these girls are correct? B. Explain the mistakes of those who got the question wrong.

Mathematics

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irakobra [83] · Answer 1 · 2021-12-09T11:40:26+03:00

irakobra [83]3 years ago

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Esther is correct, the first number to a scientific notation has to be above 0 but under 10

Effectus [21] · Answer 2 · 2021-12-09T13:39:11+03:00

Effectus [21]3 years ago

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Esther is correct. The other two misplaced the decimal place.