In the seahorse tank at an aquarium, 70% of the male seahorses have eggs in their pouches. There are 20 male seahorses in the tank. Kennedy uses the expression 0.073 20 to find the number of male seahorses with eggs. Explain why Kennedy’s expression is incorrect. How many male seahorses have eggs in their pouches?

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step-by-step explanation:

the largest number of the four options is 1.8 x 10-2

you have it in scientific notation.

1.80 x 10-6   = 0.00000180

1.80 x 10-4   = 0.000180 (bigger, or "less small", than the former one)

so

1.8 x 10-2       = 0.0180. as you see. the "less small", or the biggest one of them all.

as you have negative exponent, it means you are dividing 1.8 by 100 (i.e. moving the dot towards left, two times).

if you had positive exponent for the scientific notation, power of tenths, you would be multiplying times 100 (moving the dot towards right) as below:

1.8 x (10)2 = 180

so. if you have negative exponent in scientific notation, move the dot toward left. if it is positive, toward right as many times the exponent tells you.

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