Question

A city lunch program for seniors received a grant of 1.925×106 dollars. Divide that figure by the cost of $2.75 per lunch to find out how many senior lunches the grant can provide. Write the answer in scientific notation.(1 point)
Responses

7×105
7 times 10 superscript 5 baseline

0.7×106
0.7 times 10 superscript 6 baseline

7×106
7 times 10 superscript 6 baseline

0.7×105

1 answer

To find out how many senior lunches the grant can provide, we need to divide the total grant amount by the cost per lunch.

Grant amount: \( 1.925 \times 10^6 \) dollars
Cost per lunch: \( 2.75 \) dollars

Now, we perform the division:

\[ \text{Number of lunches} = \frac{1.925 \times 10^6}{2.75} \]

First, calculate \( \frac{1.925}{2.75} \):

\[ \frac{1.925}{2.75} \approx 0.7 \]

Next, we keep the exponent \( 10^6 \):

\[ \text{Number of lunches} \approx 0.7 \times 10^6 \]

To express it in proper scientific notation, we can rewrite \( 0.7 \times 10^6 \) as:

\[ 7 \times 10^5 \]

So, the answer in scientific notation is:

\[ \boxed{7 \times 10^5} \]