Estimate the rate at which the total personal income is rising in a metropolitan area. In 1999, the population of this area was 918,000, and the population was increasing at roughly 9700 people per year. The average annual income was $34,549 per capita, and this average was increasing at about $1300 per year (a little above the national average of about $1225 yearly). Required:
Use the Product Rule to estimate the rate at which total personal income was rising in the area in 1999.

Step-by-step explanation:

From the question we are told that:

Population size

Rate of Population increase  

Average annual income

Rate of annual income increase  

Generally the equation for Total Income is mathematically given by

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.

the answer is b