n online data storage facility has 1.326 x 10^13 bytes of storage available. It has 2.6 x 10^4 customers. How many bytes of storage can each customer use? Write your answer in scientific notation, expressed to the exact decimal place. (1 point
1.326 x 10^13 bytes / 2.6 x 10^4 customers = 5.1 x 10^8 bytes per customer.
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To find out how many bytes of storage each customer can use, we need to divide the total amount of storage available by the number of customers.
The total amount of storage available is 1.326 x 10^13 bytes.
The number of customers is 2.6 x 10^4.
To divide these numbers, we need to subtract their exponents:
(10^13) / (10^4) = 10^(13-4) = 10^9
So, each customer can use 10^9 bytes of storage.
Expressed in scientific notation, this is 1 x 10^9 bytes.
To find out how many bytes of storage each customer can use, we need to divide the total storage available by the number of customers.
The total storage available is given as 1.326 x 10^13 bytes. The number of customers is given as 2.6 x 10^4.
To divide two numbers in scientific notation, divide the coefficients and subtract the exponents.
So, (1.326 x 10^13) / (2.6 x 10^4) = (1.326 / 2.6) x (10^13 / 10^4) = 0.510 x 10^9.
However, to express the answer in scientific notation with the exact decimal place, we need to remove any trailing zeros after the decimal point.
Therefore, the answer is 0.51 x 10^9 bytes of storage per customer.