Question

The populations of two towns, town A and town B, are being compared. The population of town A is 4×10↑4 and the population of B is 2×10↑5. How many times greater is the population of town B than town A?

Answer 1

The population of town B is 5 times greater than the population of town A

Explanation:

Here in this question, we want to know the number of times in which the population of town B is greater than that of town A

To get the number of times, we simply divide the population of town B by the population of town A

From the question, the population of town B is 2 * 10^5 while the population of town A is 4 * 10^4

So to know the number of times,

We have (2 * 10^5) /(4 * 10^4) = 5

The population of town B is 5 times greater than the population of town A