A mobile phone holds 1.28 * 10 ^ 11 bytes of storage. You can also pay more money to get an additional 384,000,000,000 bytes. How much storage would your phone have if you buy the additional bytes? The answer should be in scientific notation. (1 point)

O 512 * 10 ^ 9

385.28 * 10 ^ 11

385,280,000,000

5.12 * 10 ^ 11

1 answer

To find out the total storage your mobile phone would have if you buy the additional bytes, you need to add the current storage to the additional storage.

Current storage:
\( 1.28 \times 10^{11} \) bytes

Additional storage:
\( 384,000,000,000 \) bytes = \( 3.84 \times 10^{11} \) bytes (to convert it to scientific notation)

Now, let's add the two amounts:

\[ 1.28 \times 10^{11} + 3.84 \times 10^{11} = (1.28 + 3.84) \times 10^{11} = 5.12 \times 10^{11} \]

Therefore, if you buy the additional bytes, your phone would have:

\[ 5.12 \times 10^{11} \text{ bytes} \]

So the correct answer is:

5.12 * 10 ^ 11