Question
The human body contains about 1x10^12 bacteria. The human body contains about 4x10^4 genes. The number of bacteria contained in the human body is how many times as great as the number of genes contained in the human body?
Answers
GPT-4o mini
To find out how many times the number of bacteria in the human body is greater than the number of genes, we can divide the number of bacteria by the number of genes.
Given:
- Number of bacteria = \( 1 \times 10^{12} \)
- Number of genes = \( 4 \times 10^{4} \)
Now, we perform the division:
\[
\text{Ratio} = \frac{1 \times 10^{12}}{4 \times 10^{4}}
\]
This can be simplified as follows:
\[
\text{Ratio} = \frac{1}{4} \times \frac{10^{12}}{10^{4}} = \frac{1}{4} \times 10^{12 - 4} = \frac{1}{4} \times 10^{8}
\]
Calculating \( \frac{10^{8}}{4} \):
\[
\frac{10^{8}}{4} = 2.5 \times 10^{7}
\]
Therefore, the number of bacteria is \( 2.5 \times 10^{7} \) times greater than the number of genes in the human body.
Given:
- Number of bacteria = \( 1 \times 10^{12} \)
- Number of genes = \( 4 \times 10^{4} \)
Now, we perform the division:
\[
\text{Ratio} = \frac{1 \times 10^{12}}{4 \times 10^{4}}
\]
This can be simplified as follows:
\[
\text{Ratio} = \frac{1}{4} \times \frac{10^{12}}{10^{4}} = \frac{1}{4} \times 10^{12 - 4} = \frac{1}{4} \times 10^{8}
\]
Calculating \( \frac{10^{8}}{4} \):
\[
\frac{10^{8}}{4} = 2.5 \times 10^{7}
\]
Therefore, the number of bacteria is \( 2.5 \times 10^{7} \) times greater than the number of genes in the human body.