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Concepts

To find out how many times as much one quantity in scientific
notation is than another, which operation do you use on the two
quantities?

Divide the larger quantity by the smaller quantity.

Subtract the smaller quantity from the larger quantity.

Add the two exponents together.

Multiply the two quantities together.