China consumes 4 x 10^9 tons of coal, while japan about 2 x 10^8 tons of coal. Approximately how many times the amount of that japan consumed did china consumed

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Sebastian Simon · Answer 1 · 2022-04-14T14:02:43+0000

Answer:

20 times

Explanation:

This is calculated as:

The number of coal China consumes ÷ The number of coal Japan consumes

The number of coal China consumes =4 × 10⁹

The number of coal Japan consumes

= 2 × 10⁸

4 × 10⁹/2 × 10⁸

= 20 times