watgirls watgirls
  • 07-05-2018
  • Mathematics
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The mass of a grain of sand is about 10^-3 gram. About how many grains of sand are in a 10kg bag of sand?

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modestmeri modestmeri
  • 07-05-2018
10000000

Divide the mass of the bag by the mass of sand. First you need to convert kg to g
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sherrieasbury19
sherrieasbury19 sherrieasbury19
  • 07-05-2018
The mass of a grain of sand is about 10 to the -3 power gram. 
About how many grains of sand are in the bag of sand

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10 kg* (1000 g/ 1 kg)* (1 grain of sand/ 10^(-3) g)= 10^7 grains of sand. 
(Note that the units cancel out so you get the answer) 
The final answer is 10^7 grains of sand. 
Hope this helps~

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