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 costumer use? Write your answer in scientific notion, expressed to the exact decimal place

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

1.326 * 10^13 bytes / 2.6 * 10^4 customers

To divide numbers in scientific notation, we subtract the exponents:

1.326 / 2.6 = 0.5107692307

Then, we subtract the exponents of 10:

10^(13-4) = 10^9

Multiplying the result by 10^9:

0.5107692307 * 10^9

Therefore, each customer can use approximately 5.1 * 10^8 bytes of storage.