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A company used about 7.4 × 105 sheets of paper in a month. Of the paper used during the
month, the accounting department used about 8.9 × 103 of the sheets. About how many
sheets of paper were used by other departments during the month?


Sagot :

AL2006
The company used 7.4 x 10⁵ sheets of paper.  That's 740,000 .

The accounting department used 8.9 x 10³ sheets.  That's 8,900 .

Everybody else used (740,000 - 8,900) = 731,100.  That's 7.311 x 10⁵ .

That was a lotta trees !