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Find



find\frac{\left(3.2\cdot10^{10}\right)\left(3.75\cdot10^{6}\right)}{\left(4\cdot10^{6}\right)\left(6\cdot10^{5}\right)} , expressed in scientific notation.
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GPT-4o mini
To simplify the expression

\[
\frac{(3.2 \cdot 10^{10})(3.75 \cdot 10^{6})}{(4 \cdot 10^{6})(6 \cdot 10^{5})},
\]

we can first simplify the coefficients and the powers of ten separately.

### Step 1: Simplify the coefficients
First, calculate the numerator coefficients:

\[
3.2 \cdot 3.75.
\]
Calculating this:

\[
3.2 \cdot 3.75 = 12.0.
\]

Now calculate the denominator coefficients:

\[
4 \cdot 6 = 24.
\]

### Step 2: Combine the powers of ten
Next, for the powers of ten in the numerator and denominator:

In the numerator:

\[
10^{10} \cdot 10^{6} = 10^{10+6} = 10^{16}.
\]

In the denominator:

\[
10^{6} \cdot 10^{5} = 10^{6+5} = 10^{11}.
\]

### Step 3: Create the new fraction
Now we combine the results:

The overall expression becomes:

\[
\frac{12.0 \cdot 10^{16}}{24 \cdot 10^{11}}.
\]

This can be split into:

\[
\frac{12.0}{24} \cdot \frac{10^{16}}{10^{11}}.
\]

Calculating the fraction of the coefficients:

\[
\frac{12.0}{24} = 0.5.
\]

And for the powers of ten:

\[
10^{16-11} = 10^{5}.
\]

### Step 4: Combine into scientific notation
Now we combine them:

\[
0.5 \cdot 10^{5}.
\]

To express \(0.5\) in proper scientific notation, we can say:

\[
0.5 = 5.0 \cdot 10^{-1}.
\]

Thus, we can write the expression as:

\[
5.0 \cdot 10^{-1} \cdot 10^{5} = 5.0 \cdot 10^{4}.
\]

### Final Answer
Therefore, the final result in scientific notation is:

\[
\boxed{5.0 \cdot 10^{4}}.
\]