Nate is curious to learn how much elephants eat compared to the largest animal on Earth, the blue whale.

He does some research and finds that a full-grown blue whale eats about 1,460,000 pounds of krill per year.

Write and solve a question about how much food blue whales eat. Use scientific notation in your answer.

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Darryl Vaughn

Mathematics

8 March, 19:31

Nate is curious to learn how much elephants eat compared to the largest animal on Earth, the blue whale.

He does some research and finds that a full-grown blue whale eats about 1,460,000 pounds of krill per year.

Write and solve a question about how much food blue whales eat. Use scientific notation in your answer.

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Donovan Armstrong · Answer 1

y = 1.46 * 10⁶ x

Step-by-step explanation:

We can write the following equation:

Let x to represent the number of blue whales and,

let y to represent the total krill eaten by x blue whales per year

1'460,000 = 1.46 * 10⁶

y = 1.46 * 10⁶ x