Ted's company has received an order to print 106 pages. ted's company has 100 machines, each of which can print 104 pages a day.
ted’s company can print the 106 pages in .

in exponent form, this number of days can be represented as .

Number machines=100=10² machines.
number pages/1 machine=10⁴ pages/ machine.

number pages that can print 100 machines in a day=
=10² machines * 10⁴ pages/ machines=10²⁺⁴ pages=10⁶ pages/day.

necessary days to print 10⁶ pages=number pages/ number pages that can print 100 machines in a day.

necessarry days to print 10⁶ pages=10⁶ pages / 10 ⁶ pages/day=10⁶⁻⁶ days=
=10⁰ days=1 day.

1 day for print 10⁶ pages, whith 100 machines. 

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