Question

Last year a large trucking company delivered 9.0 x 105 tons of goods with an average value of $17,000 per ton. What was the total value of the goods delivered? Write the answer in scientific notation

Answer 1

So, we have 9×105 tons of goods. Which gives us a total of 945 tons.

These goods have the average value of 17000 per ton. When we turn that into an equation we got: $945 \times 17000 = 16065000$

When we convert that into scientific notation, we can write that as: $1.6065 \times {10}^{7}$