SOLUTION: A flea can jump 1 meter in about .00000000000008 seconds. How long would it take this flea to jump 8 billion meters knowing that the flea jumps at the same speed every time. Answe
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Question 365365: A flea can jump 1 meter in about .00000000000008 seconds. How long would it take this flea to jump 8 billion meters knowing that the flea jumps at the same speed every time. Answers are to be in scientific notation.
Flea jumps 1m/8.0 x 10^-14 sec. I am horrible at figuring out formulas from word problems! 8.0 x 10^12 m/? sec. - that's as far as I get. Thanks so much for your help!
Answer by mananth(16946) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
A flea can jump 1 meter in about .00000000000008 seconds. How long would it take this flea to jump 8 billion meters knowing that the flea jumps at the same speed every time. Answers are to be in scientific notation.
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1 meter in about .00000000000008 seconds
8billion = 8*10^9 meters
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8*10^9 *8*10^-(14)=6.4*10^(-4) seconds
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