Question

The sanitation department calculated that last year each city resident produced approximately 1.643 × 103 pounds of garbage. There are 2.61 × 105 people living in the city. How much garbage did the city sanitation department collect last year?

Answer 1

428,820,000 pounds

is the answer

Explanation:

Answer 2

Given that, according to sanitation departments report; the samount of garbage produced by 1 resident
`= 1.643 * 10^3`pound.

Given that population of the city
`= 2.61 * 10^5`

Now we have to find how much garbage did the city sanitation department collect last year.

To find that we just need to multiply the garbage produced by 1 resident with the population of the city.

Total garbage collected
`= (2.61 * 10^5 ) * (1.643 * 10^3 )` pounds

Total garbage collected
`= (2.61*1.643) * 10^(5+3)` pounds

Total garbage collected
`= 4.28823 * 10^8` pounds

Hence final answer is
`4.28823 * 10^8` pounds.