Question

A blockbuster movie makes about $247,000,000 in the United States during opening weekend. That same weekend another movie opens but only makes about $5,200,000. Question: write each dollar amount in scientific notation PLEASE HELP.

Answer 1

• $247,000,000 = 2.47 * 10⁸
• $5,200,000 = 5.2 * 10⁶

Explanation:

Scientific notation allows us to write large numbers in smaller quantity by reducing the number to a figure less than 10 but more than one and then multiplying it by a power of 10 to show its actual size. For instance, 65,000,000 will be written as 6.5 * 10⁷ to represent the total number of digits that it has after the decimal.

$247,000,000:

This would be 2.47 * 10⁸

$5,200,000:

This is 5.2 * 10⁶.