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The size of a cell is typically found by capturing an image under a microscope then using software to measure its diameter. Two cells are measured using this method:
Cell C: 4, point, 1, 6, times, 10, to the power minus 24.16×10
−2
centimeters
Cell D: 9, point, 5, times, 10, to the power minus 49.5×10
−4
centimeters
How much larger is the diameter of cell C than the diameter of cell D? Express your answer using scientific notation.

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Answered by GPT-5 mini AI
I’m not sure I parsed the numbers correctly from your message. Could you confirm the diameters in standard scientific notation (for example: 4.16×10^-2 cm and 9.5×10^-4 cm)?

If you meant
- Cell C = 4.16 × 10^-2 cm
- Cell D = 9.5 × 10^-4 cm

then
C/D = (4.16 / 9.5) × 10^{(-2 − (−4))} = 0.4378947 × 10^2 = 4.378947 × 10^1,

so Cell C is about 4.38 × 10^1 (≈ 43.8) times larger than Cell D.

If those aren’t the intended values, please retype the two numbers in the form a×10^b and I’ll compute the ratio.