A city lunch program for seniors received a grant of 1.925×10^6 dollars. Divide that figure by the cost of $2.75 per lunch to find out how many senior lunches the grant can provide. Write the answer in scientific notation.(1 point)

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To find out how many senior lunches the grant can provide, you can divide the total grant amount by the cost per lunch.

The grant amount is \( 1.925 \times 10^6 \) dollars, and the cost per lunch is $2.75.

Now, perform the division:

\[ \text{Number of lunches} = \frac{1.925 \times 10^6}{2.75} \]

First, calculate the division of the coefficients:

\[ \frac{1.925}{2.75} \approx 0.7 \]

Next, combine that with the power of ten:

\[ \text{Number of lunches} = 0.7 \times 10^6 \]

To express this in scientific notation, we need to adjust the coefficient to be between 1 and 10. We can do this by changing \(0.7\) to \(7\) and decreasing the exponent by 1:

\[ 0.7 \times 10^6 = 7.0 \times 10^5 \]

Thus, the number of senior lunches the grant can provide, in scientific notation, is:

\[ \boxed{7.0 \times 10^5} \]