An online data storage facility has 1.326×1013

Question

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

1.326×1013 bytes ÷ 2.6×104 customers

To divide these numbers, we need to divide the coefficients (1.326 ÷ 2.6) and subtract their exponents (1013 - 104):

1.326 ÷ 2.6 = 0.51076923076

So, the coefficient of our answer is 0.51076923076. Now let's subtract the exponents:

1013 - 104 = 909

Therefore, each customer can use approximately 0.51076923076 x 109 bytes of storage. Written in scientific notation with the exact decimal place, this is:

5.1076923076×108 bytes

Answer 2

5.10x10^8