Question

26) The average professional basketball player's salary is 1.8 x 106 dollars per year. The averageteacher's salary is 5.6 x 10* dollars per year. What is the difference between the salary of the averagebasketball player and the average teacher in scientific notation?

Answer 1

Basketball player salary = $1.8 x 10^6 / year

Teacher salary = $ 5.6 x 10^4 / year

Convert the teacher's salary to the same exponent as the Basketball player salary.

Teacher's salary = $5.6 x 10^4 = $0.056 x 10^6

Substract = 1.8 x 10^6 - 0.056 x 10^6

= 1.744 x 10^6

Result

$1.744 x 10^6