Question

5 x 10^5 is how many times as large as 1 x 10^5?

Answer 1

5 times as large

Explanation:

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Answer 2

5 times as large

Explanation:

You can think of "10^5" as "green marbles" if you like. Then your question is ...

5 green marbles is how many times as large as 1 green marble.

Hopefully, the answer is all too clear: it is 5 times as large.

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In math terms, when you want to know how many times as large y is as x, the answer is found by dividing y by x:

y/x . . . . . tells you how many times as large as x is y.

Here, that looks like ...

`(5* 10^5)/(1* 10^5)\\\\=(5)/(1) \qquad\text{the factors of $10^5$ cancel}\\\\=5`