Question

A scientist looks at a bacterium and a virus in a lab. The bacterium has a diameter of meters. The virus has a diameter of meters. Which statement accurately compares the sizes of the specimens?

Answer 1

I got A) "The diameter of the bacterium is 10 times greater than that of the virus."

Explanation:

Answer 2

"The diameter of the bacterium is 10 times greater than that of the virus."

Explanation:

Size of bacteria is 10^-6

Size of virus is 10^-7

Definitely the bacteria is larger. How many times larger? We find that by dividing the diameter of bacterium by the diameter of virus.

Let's do this:

`(10^(-6))/(10^(-7))\\=(0.000001)/(0.0000001)\\=10`

Hence, the bacterium is 10 times larger than the virus