SOLUTION: Part 2- Large and small numbers and scientific notation
Assuming You can count 1 dollar bill per second, how many days would it take to count 400,000 dollar bills.
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Question 926306: Part 2- Large and small numbers and scientific notation
Assuming You can count 1 dollar bill per second, how many days would it take to count 400,000 dollar bills.
im not sure how to solve this.. whether it shoud be solved in scientic notation or just normally solved. Also I am not sure as to how I should begin solving this problem.
Pleease help.
Answer by Alan3354(69443) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Assuming You can count 1 dollar bill per second, how many days would it take to count 400,000 dollar bills.
It would take 400000 seconds.
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1 day = 86400 seconds
--> 400000/86400 =~ 4.6296 days
What's the big deal?
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