Question

The sanitation department calculated that last year each city resident produced approximately 1. 643 × 103 pounds of garbage. There are 2. 61 × 105 people living in the city. How much garbage did the city sanitation department collect last year? 4. 2882 pounds 428. 820 pounds 428,820 pounds 428,820,000 pounds.

Answer 1

(d) 428,820,000 pounds of garbage

Explanation:

Your calculator or spreadsheet can give you the product of two numbers expressed in scientific notation.

(1.643×10^3 lb/resident) × (2.61×10^5 residents) = 4.28823×10^(3+5) lb

≈ 428.82×10^6 lb

= 428,820,000 lb . . . of garbage