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During a lifetime people will eat about 60,000 pounds of food, An African elephant will eat approximatly 66,000,000 pounds of food in their lifetime, to figure out the problem, use scinetific notation to write an eauation, to show how many times more food an African elephant eats then a human during its lifetime. 

Does anybody know the answer??? PLEASE HELP 

 Dec 31, 2014

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$$\\66,000,000=6.6\times10^7\\\\
60,000=6\times10^4\\\\
66000000\div60000\\
=(6.6\times10^7)\div (6\times 10^4)\\
=(6.6\div 6)\times(10^7\div 10^4)\\
=1.1\times 10^{7-4}\\
=1.1\times 10^{3}\\$$

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 Dec 31, 2014
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$$\\66,000,000=6.6\times10^7\\\\
60,000=6\times10^4\\\\
66000000\div60000\\
=(6.6\times10^7)\div (6\times 10^4)\\
=(6.6\div 6)\times(10^7\div 10^4)\\
=1.1\times 10^{7-4}\\
=1.1\times 10^{3}\\$$

Melody Dec 31, 2014
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Thank you!

 Dec 31, 2014

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