Scientific Notation Applications
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1. The Hamilton Group has a contract to test farm lakes for impurities. The Baker farm has a 15.5
million gallon lake. The technician measures a gallon of water and finds 218 million impurities. How
many impurities are in the lake?
2. There are around 5.4 million RBC in a liter of blood. If the Saint Bernard dog has 9 pints of
blood Calculate the estimated number of RBC in the dog.
3. A Toxocara Canis egg can measure 85 micrometer long or 8.5 x 10-6 m. What would the
measurement be in standard notation?
4. The size of the sample under the microscope is 2.5 x 10-6 m long by 3.8 x 10-6 m wide. What
is the area of the sample in square meters?
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5. We have seen the animals getting sick at the Davis Farm for a week now. There are 5.69 billion
contaminates in the farm pond. There is 8.2 million gallons in the pond. What is the number of
contaminates per gallon in the pond?
6. Sarah, the technician estimates there are 102 thousand bacteria in the cubic centimeter of blood
sample. The dog has 7 pints of blood. One pint equals 473.9 cubic centimeters. Using the unit factor
method, what is the estimated number of bacteria in the dog?
7. The bacteria measures 2.39 x 10-8 meters long. Write the number is standard notation. If the
bacteria spits into two segments, what is the new length in scientific notation?
8. You are a technician at a dog food company. You measure an estimated 10.65 million impurities in a
one-pound sample of dog food shipped from out of country. There is 480,000 pounds of food in the
shipment. What is the estimated total amount of impurities in the shipment?
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