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A single little brown bat can eat up to 1,000 mosquitoes in a single hour.express in scientific notation how many mosquitoes a little brown bat might eat in 10.5

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Answer: 1.05 ·10⁴ mosquitoes

Explanation:

1,000mosquitoes/hour x 10.5hours =10,500 mosquitoes

Now you have to move decimal point as many space as needed left so that the number is less than ten.

10,500 ↪ 1.0500 because I moved decimal point 4 spaces, its 10⁴

Answer: 1.05 ·10⁴ mosquitoes


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