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3.9 Exercise 27

Avg difficulty 2.5

Sometimes it is entertaining to determine the time it takes for something to happen. Fingernails grow about 8.032×10−118.032 \times 10^{- 11} km per minute. How many kilometers long would fingernails be after 6×1046 \times 10^{4} minutes?

OpenStax Contemporary Mathematics, 3.9 Scientific Notation, exercise 27

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