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3.9 Exercise 29

Avg difficulty 2.5

As mentioned in the opening to this section, it is estimated that we’re producing 2.5 quintillion bytes of data per day. A good estimate is that there are 7.674 billion people on the planet. Convert both of those numbers to scientific notation, and then determine how much data is being generated per person each day.

OpenStax Contemporary Mathematics, 3.9 Scientific Notation, exercise 29

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