Jim's music library on his phone holds 1,900 songs. The songs have an average time of 3.5 minutes. Use scientific notation to find the total number of seconds the playlist will play. Express the answer to the exact decimal place. (1 point)

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To find the total number of seconds the playlist will play, we need to multiply the number of songs by the average time of each song in minutes and then convert it to seconds.

Number of songs: 1,900
Average time of each song: 3.5 minutes

Total time in minutes: 1,900 songs × 3.5 minutes/song = 6,650 minutes

Now, we need to convert the time in minutes to seconds. Since there are 60 seconds in a minute, we multiply the total time in minutes by 60:

Total time in seconds: 6,650 minutes × 60 seconds/minute = 399,000 seconds

Expressing this in scientific notation:

3.99 × 10^5 seconds

Therefore, the correct answer is 3.99 × 10^5 seconds.