huetinh2008 asked:
The land area of China is 3.692 x 106 square miles, and that of India is 1.18 x 106 square miles. What is the total land area of China and India expressed in standard notation?
Solve. The land area of China is 3.692 x 10^6 square miles, and that of India is 1.18 x 10^6 square miles. What is the total land area of China and India expressed in standard notation?
Pablo
The land area of China is 3.692 x 106 square miles, and that of India is 1.18 x 106 square miles. What is the total land area of China and India expressed in standard notation?
Solve. The land area of China is 3.692 x 10^6 square miles, and that of India is 1.18 x 10^6 square miles. What is the total land area of China and India expressed in standard notation?
Pablo
10^6 means we move the decimal place 6 units to the RIGHT (because the exponent is positive).
So, 3.692 x 10^6 = 3,692,000
Same process for India:
1.18 x 10^6 => 6 places to the right = 1,180,000
Comment by John S — March 7, 2008 @ 1:10 pm
Land area of India: 3,287,590 sq. km.
Land area of China: 9,598,086 sq. km
Total area: 12,885,676 sq. km
In scientific notation: 1.2886 x 10^7 sq. km
In SI units: 1.2886 x 10^10 sq. m
Comment by Adi D — March 10, 2008 @ 6:01 pm