Question
The state of Colorado covers about 1.04 × 105 square miles. The state of Texas covers about
2.69 × 105 square miles. How many more square miles does the state of Texas cover?
2.69 × 105 square miles. How many more square miles does the state of Texas cover?
Answers
GPT-4o mini
To find out how many more square miles Texas covers compared to Colorado, you need to subtract the area of Colorado from the area of Texas.
The area of Texas is \( 2.69 \times 10^5 \) square miles, and the area of Colorado is \( 1.04 \times 10^5 \) square miles.
Now perform the subtraction:
\[
2.69 \times 10^5 - 1.04 \times 10^5
\]
Since both terms have the same exponent of \( 10^5 \), we can subtract the coefficients:
\[
(2.69 - 1.04) \times 10^5 = 1.65 \times 10^5
\]
Thus, Texas covers \( 1.65 \times 10^5 \) square miles more than Colorado.
To express this in a standard numerical format:
\[
1.65 \times 10^5 = 165,000
\]
Therefore, Texas covers **165,000 square miles** more than Colorado.
The area of Texas is \( 2.69 \times 10^5 \) square miles, and the area of Colorado is \( 1.04 \times 10^5 \) square miles.
Now perform the subtraction:
\[
2.69 \times 10^5 - 1.04 \times 10^5
\]
Since both terms have the same exponent of \( 10^5 \), we can subtract the coefficients:
\[
(2.69 - 1.04) \times 10^5 = 1.65 \times 10^5
\]
Thus, Texas covers \( 1.65 \times 10^5 \) square miles more than Colorado.
To express this in a standard numerical format:
\[
1.65 \times 10^5 = 165,000
\]
Therefore, Texas covers **165,000 square miles** more than Colorado.