Question

As of March 5, 2014 Yo Gotti's albulm I Am sold 1.56 times 10^5 copies in the United States. Nicki Minaj's 2010 release Pink Friday sold 0.914 times 10^6 in the United States. How many total albums have the two artists sold?

Answer 1

The two artists sol 1,070,000 albums in total.

Explanation:

Yo Gotti´s album sold: 1.56x10^5. This scientific notation can be expressed as:

156,000 because you move the point between the 1 and the 5, 5 times. The same you do with Nick Minaj´s albums: 0.914x10^6 is the same as: 914,000, because you move the point between the 0 and the 9, 6 times.

To know how many albums the two artists sold, we add:

156,000+914,000= 1,070,000