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Question 232648: This is pretty confusing how would I do this
Of the 20,118 runners who started the 2006 Boston Marathon, 19,682 finished the 26.2 mile course. What is the total distance of all the runners that finished the race? How many times around the globe would these marathon runners go? Consider the circumference of the Earth to be 2.5 x 10^4 miles. Express answer in standard notation. Round answer to nearest tenth.
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Question 232649: The Atlantic Ocean has a volume of 77,640,000 cubic miles. If there are roughly 7.48 gallons in one cubic foot, then how many gallons are in the Atlantic Ocean? (1 cubic mile = 5280^3 cubic feet). Express answer in scientific notation. Round answer to the nearest tenth.
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Question 223561: A weather balloon is launched at sea level.The balloon is carrying instruments that measure temperature during the balloon's trip.After the balloon is released, the data collected shows that the temperature dropped 0.15'F for each meter that the balloon rose. If the temperature at sea level is 50'F, determine the temperature at a distance of 60 meters above sea level.
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Question 218398: I need your help on how to show my work for the following problems I need this by today!(my computer dose not have the icon for divided)
Here are the following problems:
4.8 divided by 0.4
3.84 divided by 3
19.2 divided by 0.24
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Question 217635: I have instructions on how to change fractions to decimals and do not understand the phrase in the instructions about power of ten. Here are the instuctions:
Change the following fractions to decimals. Find Prime factors of denominator first. If the Fraction is repeating, use long division. If the fraction terminates make the denominator a POWER OF TEN by multiplying by the APPROPRIATE FACTORS.
Next question would be what does the phrase "appropriate factors" mean? Is the teacher talking about the prime factors? or some other factor to make the denominator a "power of ten"?
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