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Rewrite the following statement using a number in scientific notation.

My new music player has a capacity of 300 gigabytes.​ (Recall that giga means​ billion.)

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Answer: My new music player has a capacity of 3 * 10^11 bytes.

Step-by-step explanation: giga=billion=10^9. 300 in scientific notation is 3*10^2. Since 3 is between 1 and 10. So 10^2 * 10^9=10^11.

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