Question

The processing speed of a certain computer is 10¹¹ instructions per second. Another computer has a processing speed that is 10³ times as fast. How many instructions per second can the faster computer process?​

Answer 1

“Times as fast” means you need to multiply the original speed (10^11) by how many times faster the faster processor works:

10^11 instructions/second • 10^3 faster = 10^14 instructions/second

The key is “___ times as fast”.