A proton has a size of 1.23x10^-11 and an electron has a size of 1.4x10^-8. How many times smaller is an electron than a proton? Show your work.

If I divided 1.23x10^-11 and 1.4x10^-8, wouldn't 1.4x10^-8 be the numerator or the denominator?
Please help!

2 answers

something is really wrong with your data. you have the electron almost 1000 times larger than the proton.

how many times smaller is an electron?
ANS= diameter electron/diameter proton.

but your data is really wrong. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orders_of_magnitude_%28length%29
It is just an example.