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 the number of bytes of storage each customer can use, we divide the total bytes of storage available by the number of customers:

1.326×10^13 bytes / 2.6×10^4 customers = (1.326/2.6) × (10^13/10^4) = 0.509615384615×10^(13-4) = 0.5096×10^(9)

Converting to scientific notation with the decimal place expressed to the exact decimal place, we get:

5.096×10^8