What is the relationship between 5.34×105 and 5.34×10−2?

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than 5.34×10−2.

Answer 1

To compare \( 5.34 \times 10^5 \) and \( 5.34 \times 10^{-2} \), we can calculate their values.

1. Calculate \( 5.34 \times 10^5 \): \[ 5.34 \times 10^5 = 534000 \]

2. Calculate \( 5.34 \times 10^{-2} \): \[ 5.34 \times 10^{-2} = 0.0534 \]

Now we divide \( 534000 \) by \( 0.0534 \) to find out how many times larger \( 5.34 \times 10^5 \) is compared to \( 5.34 \times 10^{-2} \).

\[ \frac{534000}{0.0534} \approx 10000000 \]

Thus, we can state the relationship as:

5.34×10^5 is 10000000 times larger than 5.34×10−2.