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Related Standards: MAFS.8.EE.1.3
Reporting Category: Expressions & Equations
Type: EE: Equation Editor
Difficulty: N/A
Question:

The average mass of a giraffe is approximately begin mathsize 12px style 1 space cross times space 10 cubed end style kilograms. The average mass of a blue whale is approximately begin mathsize 12px style 2 space cross times space 10 to the power of 6 end style.

About how many times more mass does a blue whale have than a giraffe?


Aligned Standards

Code Description
MAFS.8.EE.1.3: Use numbers expressed in the form of a single digit times an integer power of 10 to estimate very large or very small quantities, and to express how many times as much one is than the other. For example, estimate the population of the United States as 3 × and the population of the world as 7 × , and determine that the world population is more than 20 times larger.


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