SOLUTION: This needs to be answered in scientific notation and I just don't understand it. The mass of mars is 6.421x10^(20) metric tons.The mass of the sun is 1.998x10^(27) metric tons. abo

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Question 553935: This needs to be answered in scientific notation and I just don't understand it. The mass of mars is 6.421x10^(20) metric tons.The mass of the sun is 1.998x10^(27) metric tons. about how many times the mass of marsis the mass of the sun? Round to the nearest tenth.
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This needs to be answered in scientific notation and I just don't understand it. The mass of mars is 6.421x10^(20) metric tons.The mass of the sun is 1.998x10^(27) metric tons. about how many times the mass of marsis the mass of the sun? Round to the nearest tenth.
:
Write it as a proportion

Divide the numerical portion as you do normally, when you divide powers of 10, subtract the exponent of the dividing value, write it in scientific notation
= = the sun is times the mass of mars
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