1.In 2002, Home Depot’s sales amounted to $58,200,000,000. In 2006, its sales were $90,800,000,000.

Question

a.Write Home Depot’s 2002 sales and 2006 sales in scientific notation.

2002: 5.82 x 10^10
2006: 9.08 x 10^10

You can find the percent of growth in Home Depot’s sales from 2002 to 2006, follow these steps:

•Find the increase in sales from 2002 to 2006.

3.26 x 10^10

•Find what percent that increase is of the 2002 sales.

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b.What was the percent growth in Home Depot’s sales from 2002 to 2006? Do all your work by using scientific notation.

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Answer 1

So the percentage is x/100 so here it would be x/9.08, x being 5.82.
Thus 5.82/9.08 = 0.641 = 64.1%

To verify that, if you wish, you can do 9.08 x 0.641 = 5.82.

Answer 2

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