A company produced 2,590,000 small appliances in one year and made a profit of 6,590,000. What was the profit of each appliance? Express the answer in scientific notation in two decimals
2590000x=6590000
x = 6590000/2590000
x = 2.54 * 10
To find the profit per appliance, we need to divide the total profit by the total number of appliances produced. Here's how you can calculate it:
Profit per appliance = Total profit / Total number of appliances
Profit per appliance = 6,590,000 / 2,590,000
Now let's perform the division:
Profit per appliance = 2.54543...
To express the answer in scientific notation with two decimal places, we need to move the decimal point in the number 2.54543... four places to the right and multiply it by 10 raised to the power of -2 (because we want two decimal places). This gives us:
Profit per appliance = 2.54543... x 10^(-2)
Approximating the answer to two decimal places, we get:
Profit per appliance ≈ 2.55 x 10^(-2)
Therefore, the profit per appliance is approximately 2.55 x 10^(-2) in scientific notation with two decimal places.