An online data storage facility has 1.326 × 10¹³ bytes of storage available. It has 2.6 × 10⁴ 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 that each customer can use, we divide the total available storage by the number of customers:

1.326 × 10¹³ bytes / 2.6 × 10⁴ customers.

Dividing the coefficients, we get:

(1.326 / 2.6) × 10¹³ / 10⁴ = 0.510 × 10⁹.

Writing this in scientific notation, we have:

5.10 × 10⁸ bytes.

Therefore, each customer can use 5.10 × 10⁸ bytes of storage.