A dripping faucet loses about 2.510^-4ters of water each minute. There are approximately 310^5 minutes in a month.

About how many liters of water are lost because of the dripping faucet in a month?

Drag and drop the values to the boxes to express the answer in scientific notation.

5, 5.5, 7.5, 8.3, 10^-20, 10^-9, 10^1, 10²

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Mikaela Brennan

4 February, 08:49

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Ayla Dawson · Answer 1

2.5 x 10^-4 x 3 x 10^5

2.5 * 3 = 7.5

10^-4 x 10^5 (add the exponents: - 4 + 5 = 1) = 10^1

so 7.5 x 10^1

Alexis Burns · Answer 2

That would be

2.5 * 10^-4 * 3 * 10^5 = 7.5 * 10^1