Question

R of breaths of all people in asia in 2016? Expressing your answer in scinentific notation in the form a *10^(b) what are the values of a and b?

Answer 1

Answer:

$a = 3.7464$

$b = 16$

Step-by-step explanation:

Given

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Express the answer in $a * 10^b$

From the question, we have:

$People = 4.46 * 10^9$

$Breath = 8.4 * 10^6$ breath/person in a year

The number of breath is calculated by:

$Overall = People * Breath$

So, we have:

$Overall = 4.46 * 10^9 * 8.4 * 10^6$

Reorder

$Overall = 4.46 * 8.4* 10^9 * 10^6$

$Overall = 37.464* 10^{9+6}$

$Overall = 37.464* 10^{15}$

Using scientific notation $a * 10^b$;

The value (a) must be in the following interval $0 \le a \le 1$

So, we have:

$Overall = 3.7464 * 10 * 10^{15$

$Overall = 3.7464 * 10^{16$

By comparing the above with: $a * 10^b$

$a = 3.7464$

$b = 16$