Pyramid a has a lateral edge of 10 and a height of 8. Pyramid B has a lateral edges of length 15 and height 12. Both A and B are regular square pyramids. What is the ratio of the lateral areas of the pyramids?

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i believe the correct answer is b.

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what grade level is this? need to know so i can look in my old textbooks!

the largest number of the four options is 1.8 x 10-2

you have it in scientific notation.

1.80 x 10-6   = 0.00000180

1.80 x 10-4   = 0.000180 (bigger, or "less small", than the former one)

so

1.8 x 10-2       = 0.0180. as you see. the "less small", or the biggest one of them all.

as you have negative exponent, it means you are dividing 1.8 by 100 (i.e. moving the dot towards left, two times).

if you had positive exponent for the scientific notation, power of tenths, you would be multiplying times 100 (moving the dot towards right) as below:

1.8 x (10)2 = 180

so. if you have negative exponent in scientific notation, move the dot toward left. if it is positive, toward right as many times the exponent tells you.