Question

How many times greater is 3.8 x 105 than 1.9 X 1022 2 20 200 2000

Answer 1

Step-by-step explanation:

there must be something wrong with your text.

what we can see is

3.8 × 105

and

1.9 × 1022

the true answer for these values has nothing to do with the 4 answer options.

maybe you meant

1.9 × 10.5 ?

because that answer would be 20.

but first working with the presented numbers :

3.8 × 105 = 399

1.9 × 1022 = 1941.8

so, the second number is actually much bigger than the first number.

but if it is

1.9 × 10.5 = 19.95

that works.

and we can either use the calculator to calculate

399 / 19.95 = 20

or we can simply look at the factor changes of the multiplication terms.

3.8 = 1.9 × 2

105 = 10.5 × 10

so, the multiplication product of the two larger numbers is then 2×10=20 times larger than the product of the 2 smaller numbers.