The size of three plant cells are given below in scientific notation: Cell A=4.2 x 10-4 Cell B=21 x 10-5 Cell C=8.4 x 10-4 How many times larger is Cell C than Cell A?

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Ziik · Answer 1 · 2024-05-19T19:06:45+0000

Cell C is 2 times larger than Cell A when comparing their sizes given in scientific notation.

To determine how many times larger Cell C is than Cell A, we compare the sizes of the two cells provided in scientific notation:

To find out how many times larger Cell C is, we simply divide the size of Cell C by the size of Cell A:

Cell C / Cell A = (8.4 x 10-4) / (4.2 x 10-4)

Because the powers of 10 are the same for both Cell A and Cell C, we can directly divide 8.4 by 4.2, giving us:

2 x 100 (since any number raised to the power of 0 is 1)

Therefore, Cell C is 2 times larger than Cell A.