an American football field has an area of 6.4×10 to the power of 3 yd.² a Canadian football field is 3350 yd.² larger. What is the area of a Canadian football field write your answer in scientific notation to two decimal places

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To find the area of a Canadian football field, we can add the area of the American football field to the additional area that the Canadian field has.

Given:

  • Area of an American football field = \(6.4 \times 10^3\) yd²
  • Additional area for a Canadian football field = 3350 yd²

First, we need to express 3350 in scientific notation:

\[ 3350 = 3.35 \times 10^3 \]

Now we can add the two areas together:

\[ \text{Area of Canadian football field} = 6.4 \times 10^3 + 3.35 \times 10^3 \]

Since both numbers are in scientific notation with the same exponent (10³), we can simply add the coefficients:

\[ \text{Area} = (6.4 + 3.35) \times 10^3 = 9.75 \times 10^3 \text{ yd}² \]

Now, writing it in scientific notation to two decimal places, the area of a Canadian football field is:

\[ \boxed{9.75 \times 10^3 \text{ yd}²} \]