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McDonald's has sold more than a billion hamburgers. If it were possible to eat a hamburger every minute of every day (day and night) without stopping, how many years would it take to eat a billion hamburgers? Express your answers in both scientific notation and decimal form.

a) 31.7 years (3.17 x 10^1 years)
b) 1,667 years (1.667 x 10^3 years)
c) 19.6 years (1.96 x 10^1 years)
d) 10,000 years (1 x 10^4 years)

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Final answer:

If it were possible to eat a hamburger every minute of every day, it would take approximately 1901.14 years to eat a billion hamburgers.

Step-by-step explanation:

To determine how many years it would take to eat a billion hamburgers if you were able to eat one every minute of every day, we can calculate the number of minutes in a year and then divide the total number of hamburgers by the number of hamburgers eaten in one minute.

There are 60 minutes in an hour, 24 hours in a day, and 365 days in a year. So, the total number of minutes in a year is:

(60 minutes/hour) x (24 hours/day) x (365 days/year) = 525,600 minutes/year.

Dividing 1 billion by 525,600 gives us 1901.14 years in decimal form and 1.901 x 10^3 years in scientific notation.

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