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document.write( ": <I><SPAN STYLE=\"word-break: break-all;\"> Express the answer in scientific notation to two decimals. A company produced 2,600,000 small appliances in one year and made a profit of $6,690,000. What was the profit on each appliance? </SPAN>\n" );
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document.write( "The profit on each appliance is the profit per appliance or profit/# of appliances.\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "6,690,000/2,600,000<BR>\n" );
document.write( "= $2.57 \r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "Scientific notation is stating the number as a single digit number times the appropriate power of 10. That would be 10^1 in this case or 2.57 * 10^1.<BR>\n" );
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