What is 8 tons in eponential form ?

Question

This is a homework question and we have had no luck . Please help !!!!

Answer 1

8 tons is 16,000 lbs

In scientific notation that would be 1.6 X 10 ^ 4th.

That's about as exponential as this problem gets.

Answer 2

If we ignore the idea that a Ton in the USA is 2000lbs, and a Ton overseas is 2200 lbs (or 1000 kilos) And we toss out the information that a kilo is a measurement of mass, where a pound is a measurement of wieght (measure of pull of earth's gravity on the object in question)

And we just take that number : 8 ; your exponential form would be, 2^3 (where the little ^ symbol tells you to take the next number and make it tiny and move it to the top right of the first number when you write it down)

2 x 2 = 4, x2 = 8 so 2 x2 x2 or 2 to the third power is 8.

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Answer 3

Well 1 tonne equals one megagram in metric (aka 1000 kilograms). Thus 8 tonnes would be 8.0 x 10^3 kilograms in scientific form.

Answer 4

wow.

well if you put the tons in pounds that is

16,000 pounds = 8 tons (english)

so that would be 1.6 X 10^4 or 1.6E4

if you put it in metric

8000 kg = 8 metric tons

so it would be 8E3 or 8 X 10^3

Answer 5

8.0 x 10^3

Answer 6

8tons is 16000 pounds
16x10to the 3rd