Question

The area of the Pacific Ocean is 63,780,000 square miles. The Atlantic Ocean is 2.27 cross times 10 to the power of 7 square miles smaller than the Pacific Ocean. What is the area of the Atlantic Ocean written in scientific notation?

Answer 1

4.11 * 10⁷ square miles

Explanation:

Let P = pacific ocean

A = Atlantic ocean

P = 63,780,000 = 6.38 * 10⁷

Since A is 2.27 * 10⁷ square miles smaller than the pacific ocean,

The area of A = 6.38 * 10⁷ - 2.27 * 10⁷

The area of the atlantic ocean = 4.11 * 10⁷ square miles