Derek sold her house for $541,600, which was 140% of the amount she paid for it. Calculate the amount she paid for the property.

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  $386,857.14

Step-by-step explanation:

You have ...

  sold = 140% × paid

Dividing by 140% gives ...

  paid = sold/1.40 = $541,500/1.40 = $386,857.14

Derek paid $386,857.14 for the property.

it would be:

c.parallelogram.

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.