12. A thumb drive has a storage capacity of 1,000,000,000 bytes. A hard drive has a storage capacity of 10,000,000,000 bytes.

a)

Write each storage capacity as 10 raised to a power.

Thumb Driver : 108

Hard Driver: 109

b)

What is the total storage capacity of 1,000 similar thumb drives? Write

your answer in exponential notation.

c)

How many times larger the storage capacity of the thumb drive is than

the hard drive?