There are 125 blades of grass in a square cm of lawn. Assuming the grass stand is even, how many blades of grass would be found in a lawn measuring 8 meters by 6 meters?

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I need to use scientific notation in my answer. Please help

Answer 1

Hey there.

So, for this equation - I took the meters and multiplied them by 100 (for 100 cm in a meter).

so 800x600=480,000. Then I took the area (480,000), and multiplied it by how many blades of grass were in each square CM. 480,000x125=60,000,000 blades of grass