(NOT LINKS) George takes a photograph of a rectangular window that is 3 1/2 feet tall and 1 3/4 feet wide. He prints the photograph on paper so that the image of the window is 1/2 foot tall and 1/4 foot wide.
What is the ratio of the area of the window to the area of the image of the window?

A. 1:49

B. 1:7

C. 7:1

D. 49:1

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.

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