A mobile phone holds 1.28 × 10^(5) bytes of storage. You can also pay more money to get an additional 384,000,000,000 bytes. How much storage would your phone have if you buy the additional bytes? The answer should be in scientific notation.
A. 5.12 x 10^(11)
B. 512 x 10^(9)
C. 385.28 x 10^(11)
D. 385,280,000,000
To find out how much storage the phone would have if you buy the additional bytes, you need to add the original storage to the additional bytes.
1.28 × 10^(5) bytes + 3.84 × 10^(11) bytes = 3.84 × 10^(11) + 1.28 × 10^(5) bytes = 3.84 × 10^(11) + 1.28 × 10^(5) bytes
Since the numbers are already in scientific notation, you can simply add the exponents.
3.84 × 10^(11) + 1.28 × 10^(5) = 3.84 × 10^(11+5) = 3.84 × 10^(16)
Therefore, the phone would have 3.84 × 10^(16) bytes of storage.
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