Question

The combined volume of all the tanks at an aquarium is 1.25 X 106 gallons. The aquarium plans to install a new dolphin tank with a volume of 250,000 gallons. What will be the total volume of all of the tanks at the aquarium after the new dolphin tank is installed?

Answer 1

1. The combined volume of all the tanks at the aquarium is written in Scientific notation. Keeping this on mind, you can write it as following:

$(1.25)(10^{6})=1,250,000gallons$

2. Now, you must sum the combined volume of all the tanks and the volume of  the new tank to calculate the total volume of all of them:$Vt=1,250,000gallons+250,000gallons\\Vt= 1,500,000gallons$

3. Now, you can write the result in Scientific notation, as following:

$Vt=(1.5)(10^{6}) gallons$

The answer is: $(1.5)(10^{6}) gallons$