Question

Unit testThe table shown below gives the approximate 2014 earnings for various athletes.Approximately how many times as large were Ronald Christian's 2014 earnings as Forest Thor

Answer 1

`\text{Answer = 3 }*10^3`

From the table provided:

Ronald Christian's earning = $92,000,000

Forest Thor's earning = $30,000

To get the number of times Ronald Christian's earning is as large as Forest Thor's earning, we will do:

`\frac{\text{Ronald Christian's earning}}{\text{Forest Thor's earning}}\text{ = }(92000000)/(30000)`
`\frac{\text{Ronald Christian's earning}}{\text{Forest Thor's earning}}\text{ = 3066.67}`

Approximately;

`\frac{\text{Ronald Christian's earning}}{\text{Forest Thor's earning}}=\text{ }3000\text{ = 3 }*10^3`