last year a trucking company delivered 9.0*10^5 tons of goods with an average value of $17000 per ton. What was the total value of the goods delivered?

Question

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Answer 1

17,000 = 1.7 x 10⁴

 

total value of the goods = (9.0 x 10⁵) * (1.7 x 10⁴) = 15.3 x 10⁹= 1.53 x 10¹⁰ dollars