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:
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:
3. Now, you can write the result in Scientific notation, as following:
The answer is:
Answer:
30500 = 3.05·10^4
Step-by-step explanation:
Your calculator can do this for you. You may need to set the display to scientific notation, if that's the form of the answer you want.
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This can be computed by converting both numbers to standard form:
(5·10^2) +(3·10^4)
= 500 +30000 = 30500 = 3.05·10^4
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Addition of numbers in scientific notation in general requires that they have the same power of 10. It may be convenient to convert both numbers to the highest power of 10.
5·10^2 + 3·10^4
= 0.05·10^4 +3·10^4 . . . . now both have multipliers of 10^4
= (0.05 +3)·10^4
= 3.05·10^4
