Question

>>The grey grouper produces as many as 340,000,000 eggs per year.
>> Write an estimate for the number of eggs as a single digit times an integer
power of 10.
3 X
108
)340,000,000 is about 300,000,000.
300000000=3x10"

Answer 1

340,000,000 ≈ 300,000,000, and 300,000,000 = 3 × 100,000,000 = 3 × 10^8.

So the estimate is 3 × 10^8 eggs per year.