Our final answer must represent "number of mosquitos." This verifies that the correct calculation would be
1000 mosquitos 10.5 hours
----------------------- x --------------------
1 hour 1
Multiply this out. Note that "hours" will cancel.
Whats your result?
Supposing that your result looked like xxxxx times 10^0,
you'd convert this into scientific notation by moving the decimal place four units to the left (obtaining x.xxx) and then increasing the exponent of 10 from zero to four (obtaining 10^4).
Then your answer would have the form x.xxx times 10^4 (mosquitos)
Answer:

Step-by-step explanation:
We are given the temperature inside the machine from startup until 10 seconds later, the formula is:

We want to know at what time t the temperature inside the machine will be equal to 128 °C.
So we set:


Now, we rearrange the equation to keep terms with t on the left hand side and terms without t on the right hand side

and we simplify:


now it's easy to solve for t:

And thus we arrive to the solution.