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The heaviest dinosaur is estimated to have welghed 2.8 x 10^5 pounds. The average car weighs about 4 x 10^3 pounds.

The heaviest dinosaur weighed about
| I times more than the av
erage car.​

User Yomara
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Answer:

the person above me is right

Explanation:

User Freddy Benson
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Answer:

70

Explanation:

Apparently, you want the ratio of the weights:

(dino weight)/(car weight) = (2.8×10^5)/(4×10^3)

= (2.8/4)×10^(5-3) = 0.7×10^2 = 0.7×100

= 70

The heaviest dinosaur weighed about 70 times the weight of an average car.

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Your calculator can do arithmetic in scientific notation. So can any spreadsheet.

The applicable rule of exponents is ...

(10^a)/(10^b) = 10^(a-b)

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