the population of China is about 1.4 x 10 to the power of 9 people. Julie grew up in a town with a population of about 7,000 people. How many times greater is the population of China than Julie's hometown? Please answer this in scientific notation.

Jessica is organizing a guided tour of the rain forest. the average profit per person that the touring company makes is given by the rational expression 18x+35/x, where x is the number of people going on the tour. what does the numerator of this rational expression represents?