SOLUTION: Modern personal computers can perform one operation in 5*10^-10 second. How many operations can such a computer perform in 1 minute? answer in scientific notation.

Question 894148: Modern personal computers can perform one operation in 5*10^-10 second. How many operations can such a computer perform in 1 minute? answer in scientific notation.
Answer by Alan3354(69443) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Modern personal computers can perform one operation in 5*10^-10 second. How many operations can such a computer perform in 1 minute? answer in scientific notation.
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Secs/op = 5e-10
Ops/sec = 1/5e-10 = 0.2e10 = 2e9
Times 60 = 120e9 = 1.2e11
or
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