Lesson 12
Applications of Arithmetic with Powers of 10
Problem 1
Which is larger: the number of meters across the Milky Way, or the number of cells in all humans? Explain or show your reasoning.
Some useful information:
- The Milky Way is about 100,000 light years across.
- There are about 37 trillion cells in a human body.
- One light year is about \(10^{16}\) meters.
- The world population is about 7 billion.
Solution
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Problem 2
Ecologists measure the body length and wingspan of 127 butterfly specimens caught in a single field.
- Draw a line that you think is a good fit for the data.
- Write an equation for the line.
- What does the slope of the line tell you about the wingspans and lengths of these butterflies?
![Scatterplot, wingspan in millimeters, body length in millimeters. Please request assistance.](https://staging-cms-im.s3.amazonaws.com/1qwT2Gh5DaqpAMgxcZP33uZi?response-content-disposition=inline%3B%20filename%3D%228-8.6.PP.B.Image.20.png%22%3B%20filename%2A%3DUTF-8%27%278-8.6.PP.B.Image.20.png&response-content-type=image%2Fpng&X-Amz-Algorithm=AWS4-HMAC-SHA256&X-Amz-Credential=AKIAXQCCIHWF37H2AMFB%2F20240722%2Fus-east-1%2Fs3%2Faws4_request&X-Amz-Date=20240722T132952Z&X-Amz-Expires=604800&X-Amz-SignedHeaders=host&X-Amz-Signature=8bc08575b2396e86e1e8f036ccee7f3cf67b32b59740b02fb9d6deea62da4709)
Solution
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(From Unit 6, Lesson 5.)Problem 3
Diego was solving an equation, but when he checked his answer, he saw his solution was incorrect. He knows he made a mistake, but he can’t find it. Where is Diego’s mistake and what is the solution to the equation?
\(\displaystyle \begin{align} \text-4(7-2x)=3(x+4)\\ \text-28-8x=3x+12\\ \text-28=11x+12\\ \text-40=11x\\ \text{-}\frac {40}{11}=x\ \end{align}\)
Solution
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(From Unit 4, Lesson 5.)Problem 4
The two triangles are similar. Find \(x\).
![Two triangles. The first has acute angles marked 46 degrees and x degrees. The second has an obtuse marked 106 degrees.](https://staging-cms-im.s3.amazonaws.com/idy2ZBdpMfi5f4Pq7iq5T8Y9?response-content-disposition=inline%3B%20filename%3D%228-8.2.B.PP.Image.08.png%22%3B%20filename%2A%3DUTF-8%27%278-8.2.B.PP.Image.08.png&response-content-type=image%2Fpng&X-Amz-Algorithm=AWS4-HMAC-SHA256&X-Amz-Credential=AKIAXQCCIHWF37H2AMFB%2F20240722%2Fus-east-1%2Fs3%2Faws4_request&X-Amz-Date=20240722T132952Z&X-Amz-Expires=604800&X-Amz-SignedHeaders=host&X-Amz-Signature=775c64a4bff8759afc45116c8f3180b4f4d25586eab87a7714ba700685580742)
Solution
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(From Unit 2, Lesson 7.)