The approximate areas of Georgia and South Carolina are listed below: Georgia: 1.54\times 10^{5}1.54×10^5
square kilometers
South Carolina: 8.29\times 10^{4}8.29×10^4
square kilometers
How many times larger is Georgia than South Carolina? Write your answer in standard notation, rounding to the nearest tenth.

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.