Question

A dish containing bacteria has a diameter of 0.0001 kilometer. The diameter of a bacterium is 10−16 kilometer. How many times larger is the diameter of the dish than the diameter of the bacterium?

Answer 1

Answer:

100000000000 times

Step-by-step explanation:

Given

Diameter of Dish = 0.00001 km

Diameter of Bacterium = 10⁻¹⁶ km

Required

Determine the number of times the diameter of dish is bigger than that of the bacterium

To solve this, we simply divide the diameter of dish by the diameter of the bacterium as follows

$Ratio = \frac{Dish}{Bacterium}$

$Ratio = \frac{0.00001}{10^{-16}}$

$Ratio = 100000000000$

Hence, the diameter of the dish is 100000000000 times larger than the diameter of the bacterium