Chloe brought 1.2 x 10^2 paper plates and 5.04 x 10^3 napkins for her restaurant. She wondered ''How many times as great as the number of paper plates i brought was the number of napkins?
Explain how you know if the exponent to the answer will be positive or negative.
How many times as great as the number of paper plates Chloe brought was the number of napkins?