Question

47 was divided by a power of ten to get 0.047.

What power of ten was it divided by?

Answer 1

The answer is 1,000.

Answer 2

To convert 47 to 0.047, we moved the decimal point three places to the left. Therefore, 47 was divided by 10 raised to the power of 3 to get 0.047.

So the answer is that 47 was divided by 10^3 or 1000 to get 0.047.

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