Question

HELP!! An apartment building is infested with 6.2 x 10^3 rats. on average each of these rats produces 5.5 x 10^1 offspring each year. assuming no rats leave or die, how many additional rats will live in this building one year from now? write your answer in standard form.

Answer 1

The additional rats will live in this building one year from now is 3.41 x 10^5.

What is the additional number of rats?

Standard form is used in expressing large numbers in smaller numbers. In order to write a number in standard form, the number is written as a decimal number, between 1 and 10 and multiplied by a power of 10.

(6.2 x 10^3) x ( 5.5 x 10^1) = 34.10 x 10^4

= 3.41 x 10^5

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