A cruise ship weighs 38300000 (3.8*10^7) kilos. A horse weighs 710 (7.1*10^2) kilos. About how many horses weigh as much as a cruise ship?
Give your answer in scientific notation using ONLY whole numbers.
To find out how many horses weigh as much as a cruise ship, we need to divide the weight of the cruise ship by the weight of one horse.
38300000 kilos ÷ 710 kilos = 53943.6619718
Since we need to use whole numbers only, we will round down the decimal part to the nearest whole number.
The number of horses that weigh as much as a cruise ship is approximately 53,943.
Put it in scientific notation, please.
The number of horses that weigh as much as a cruise ship is approximately 5.4 x 10^4.
It has to be a whole number as well.
Please put it as a whole number in scientific notation.