Scientific Notation Problems

1. The speed of light is 186,000 miles per second, or about 671,000,000 miles per hour. How
would you express these numbers in scientific notation?

2. The diameter of the Moon is 3.475 × 10 6 m. What is the diameter of the Moon written as an
ordinary number?

3. A human heart beats an average of 80 beats per minute. How many beats is this in an hour?
Express your answer in scientific notation.

a) How many heartbeats is this in a day? Put your answer in scientific notation.
b) About how many heartbeats is this in a year? Put your answer in scientific notation.
c) About how many heartbeats is this in 80 years? Put your answer in scientific notation.

4. A tiny space inside a computer chip has been measured to be 0.00000256m wide,
0.00000014m long and 0.000275m high. What is its volume?

5. If 446 billion telephone calls were placed by 135 million United States telephone
subscribers, what was the average number of calls per subscriber? (Write your answer in
scientific notation)

6. A corporation has 4,8 x 103 employees. The average annual salary for each of its employees
is $ 4,5 x 104. Approximately how much does the corporation play its employees each year?

7. The table shown below gives the approximate enrollment at the University of Michigan
every fifty years.

How many more students were enrolled at the University of Michigan in 1950 than in 1900?
Express your answer in scientific notation.