<PRE><B>Question 173190</B>
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?

The profit on each appliance is the profit per appliance or profit/# of appliances.


6,690,000/2,600,000
= $2.57 

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.
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