At lift-off, a rocket weighs 40.2 tons, including the weight of fuel. It is fired vertically, and the fuel is consumed at the rate of 2.23 tons per 1,000 ft of ascent. How much work is done in lifting the rocket to an altitude of 10,000 ft?

On the way home from visiting his family, vincent’s plane cruised at an altitude of 3.2 × 10^4 feet. he had heard that a man named felix baumgartner skydived from an altitude of 1.28 × 10^5 feet. vincent wants to know how much higher felix went on his skydiving trip. question 1 you have already seen how adding numbers works in either scientific notation or standard notation. but can you subtract numbers in scientific notation and get the same results as subtracting in standard notation? to find out, first solve vincent’s problem in standard notation. part a write the cruising altitude of vincent’s plane in standard notation.