A radio station advertised the Olympia Marathon by saying that about 12,000,000 calories would be burned in one day. If there were 3,000 runners, about how many calories did each runner burn?

Question

Answer options with 5 options
A.
4.0 times 10 Superscript 2 Baseline

B.
4.0 times 10 Superscript 3 Baseline

C.
4.0 times 10 Superscript 4 Baseline

D.
4.0 times 10 Superscript 9 Baseline

E.
4.0 times 10 Superscript 10 Baseline

Answer 1

B. 4.0 times 10^3 Baseline

To find out how many calories each runner burned, you would divide the total number of calories burned (12,000,000) by the number of runners (3,000).

12,000,000 / 3,000 = 4,000

4,000 calories per runner is equivalent to 4.0 times 10^3 calories per runner.