If you want to buy an item in a store that costs $50 and is on sale for 10% off, then how much would the item actually cost you after the discount?

On the way home from visiting his family, vincent’s plane cruised at an altitude of 3.2 × 104 feet. he had heard that a man named felix baumgartner skydived from an altitude of 1.28 × 105 feet. vincent wants to know how much higher felix went on his skydiving trip. question 1 you have already seen how adding numbers works in either scientific notation or standard notation. but can you subtract numbers in scientific notation and get the same results as subtracting in standard notation? to find out, first solve vincent’s problem in standard notation. part a write the cruising altitude of vincent’s plane in standard notation.

Choose the more precise measurement. 26.4 cm or 8.39 cm

Aparticular telephone number is used to receive both voice calls and fax messages. suppose that 25% of the incoming calls involve fax messages, and consider a sample of 25 incoming calls. (a) what is the expected number of calls among the 25 that involve a fax message?