Answer:The purpose of scientific notation is for scientists to write very large, or very small, numbers with ease.
Calculating scientific notation for a positive integer is simple, as it always follows this notation:
a x 10b
Follow the steps below to see how 12,500 is written in scientific notation.
Step 1
To find a, take the number and move a decimal place to the right one position.
Original Number: 12,500
New Number: 1.2500
Step 2
Now, to find b, count how many places to the right of the decimal.
New Number: 1 . 2 5 0 0
Decimal Count: 1 2 3 4
There are 4 places to the right of the decimal place.
Step 3
Building upon what we know above, we can now reconstruct the number into scientific notation.
Remember, the notation is: a x 10b
a = 1.25 (Please notice any zeroes on the end have been removed)
b = 4
Now the whole thing:
1.25 x 104
Step 4
Check your work:
104 = 10,000 x 1.25 = 12,500
Step-by-step explanation:
Answer:
50 Days
Step-by-step explanation:
500000/10000 =50
Answer:
Mean = 78.2
Standard deviation = 5.8
Step-by-step explanation:
Mathematically z-score;
= (x-mean)/SD
From the question;
12% of test scores were above 85
Thus;
P( x > 85) = 12%
P(x > 85) = 0.12
Now let’s get the z-score that has a probability of 0.12
This can be obtained from the standard normal distribution table and it is = 1.175
Thus;
1.175 = (85 - mean)/SD
let’s call the mean a and the SD b
1.175 = (85-a)/b
1.175b = 85 - a
a = 85 - 1.175b ••••••••(i)
Secondly 8% of scores were below 70
Let’s find the z-score corresponding to this proportion;
We use the standard normal distribution table as usual;
P( x < 70) = 0.08
z-score = -1.405
Thus;
-1.405 =( 70-a)/b
-1.405b = 70-a
a = 70 + 1.405b ••••••(ii)
Equate the two a
70 + 1.405b = 85 - 1.175b
85 -70 = 1.405b + 1.175b
15 = 2.58b
b = 15/2.58
b = 5.81
a = 70 + 1.405b
a = 70 + 1.405(5.81)
a = 78.16
So mean = 78.2 and Standard deviation is 5.8
Answer:
500
Step-by-step explanation:
Let the unknown number be n. Then 1.5n = 750, and n = 500.
750 is 150 percent of 500.
