SOLUTION: Express in scientific notation and then solve. There was a total of $9.48 million contributed to a political campaign by 79 thousand people. What was the average contribution?

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Question 1007184: Express in scientific notation and then solve. There was a total of $9.48 million contributed to a political campaign by 79 thousand people. What was the average contribution?
Answer by fractalier(6550) About Me  (Show Source):
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Scientific notation means writing any number as a number between one and en times some power of ten...here we have
%289.48+%2A+10%5E6%29+%2F+%287.9+%2A+10%5E4%29 =
$120 average contribution