Question

An environmental scientist estimated the number of drops of water in two different jugs. He estimated that the smaller jug contains 808,000 drops of water and the larger jug contains 2,280,000.0000000005 drops of water. What is the difference between the number of drops of water in the larger jug and the number of drops of water in the smaller jug?

Answer 1

The difference the number of drops of water in the larger jug and the number of drops of water in the smaller jug is 1,472,000.0000000005.

Explanation:

Given:

An environmental scientist estimated the number of drops of water in two different jugs. He estimated that the smaller jug contains 808,000 drops of water and the larger jug contains 2,280,000.0000000005 drops of water.

Now, to find the difference between the number of drops of water in the larger jug and the number of drops of water in the smaller jug.

The drops of water larger jug contains = 2,280,000.0000000005.

The drops of water smaller jug contains = 808,000.

Now, to get the difference between the number of drops of water in the larger jug and the number of drops of water in the smaller jug we subtract:

`2,280,000.0000000005-808,000\\\\=1,472,000.0000000005.`

Therefore, the difference the number of drops of water in the larger jug and the number of drops of water in the smaller jug is 1,472,000.0000000005.