Amicroscope can magnify the object it is looking at 10×4 times. how many times is that? (mcc.8.ee.3) a. 40,000 times b. 40 times c. 10,000 d. 1,000

10×4 = 40

10^4 = 10,000

Step-by-step explanation:

10^4 is another way to write 10⁴ = 10·10·10·10 = 10,000.

Essentially, the exponent tells you how many places to the right of the leading digit the decimal point lies (here, the number of zeros in the number).

Comment on the answer choice

The appropriate answer depends on what you mean by your problem statement. Some microscopes magnify 40 times; others magnify 10,000 times, so we cannot tell the appropriate answer using our knowledge of microscopes.

option a is correct.

step-by-step explanation:

scale factor: it is used to find proportional measurements.

proportions means having the same ratio.

scale factor is the ratio of the model measurement to the actual measurement in a simplest form.

or we can say that the ratio of any two corresponding lengths in two similar geometric figures

if the scale factor is more than 1, then it is an enlargement,

if the scale factor less than 1, then it is a reduction.

given the two geometric figure:

by definition of proportions, we have