Derrick wants an air conditioner in his living room. It is a rectangular room that measures 13 feet by 15 feet. The room is well insulated and is on the east side of the house. It has an 8-foot-high ceiling. How large of an air conditioner would this room require? Round to the nearest thousand BTUs. =

Derrick wants an air conditioner in his living room. It is a rectangular room that measures 13 feet by 15 feet. The room is well insulated and is on the east side of the house. It has an 8-foot-high ceiling. How large of an air conditioner would this room require? Round to the nearest thousand BTUs, hope this helped :)

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.