SOLUTION: Pg 148 scientific notation Problem reads... A laser light printer prints one character in 2.5X10 to the negative 5 seconds. A certain document takes 10 minutes to print. How many

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: Pg 148 scientific notation
Problem reads... A laser light printer prints one character in 2.5X10 to the negative 5 seconds. A certain document takes 10 minutes to print. How many characters are contained in the document.
This question is from textbook New Progress in Mathematics

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A laser light printer prints one character in 2.5X10 to the negative 5 seconds. A certain document takes 10 minutes to print. How many characters are contained in the document
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10 mins = 600 seconds
# of chars = 600/2.5E-5
= 240E5
= 2.4E7 (or 2.4*10^7) characters