An online data storage facility has 1.326×10^13 bytes of storage available. It has 2.6×10^4 customers. How many bytes of storage can each customer use? Write your answer in scientific notation, expressed to the exact decimal place.

Answer 1

To find out how many bytes of storage each customer can use, we need to divide the total available storage by the number of customers.

1.326×10^13 bytes ÷ 2.6×10^4 customers

To divide numbers in scientific notation, we need to divide their coefficients and subtract their exponents:

1.326 ÷ 2.6 = 0.510
10^13 ÷ 10^4 = 10^9

So, each customer can use 0.510 × 10^9 bytes of storage.

In scientific notation, expressed to the exact decimal place, this is 5.1 × 10^8 bytes.