Solomon needs to distribute 10.5 gallons of perfume among 3.5 × 10^2 containers. How many gallons of perfume will be in each container? Write the answer in scientific notation. (1 point)

Question

3 × 10^2

0.35 × 10^−1

3 × 10^−2

3 × 10^−1

Answer 1

To find out how many gallons of perfume will be in each container, we can divide the total amount of perfume (10.5 gallons) by the number of containers (3.5 × 10^2 containers).

10.5 gallons / (3.5 × 10^2 containers)

This can be simplified by cancelling out the factor of 10^2 in the denominator:

10.5 gallons / 3.5 = 3 gallons

Therefore, there will be 3 gallons of perfume in each container.

In scientific notation, this is represented as 3 × 10^0.

So the correct answer is:

3 × 10^0