Exponents and polynomials

[Dallan3222]

Hello everyone,

Been having trouble figuring out steps steps that a friend of mine got when faced with this problem:

Today’s fastest modern computers can perform one operation in 1x10^-8 second. How many operations can such a computer perform in 1 minute?

I figure that it goes something like this:

(1x10^-8)(60)

Now, the answer is 6x10⁹ operations, I just don't know how he arrived at that solution. Could anyone please show me the formula and steps that were involved, thank you.

 

[Deleted member 4993]

Hello everyone,

Been having trouble figuring out steps steps that a friend of mine got when faced with this problem:

Today’s fastest modern computers can perform one operation in 1x10^-8 second.

So it can perform 1/(10^-8 =) 10⁸ operations in one second.

How many operations can such a computer perform in 1 minute?

I figure that it goes something like this:

(1x10^-8)(60)

Now, the answer is 6x10⁹ operations, I just don't know how he arrived at that solution. Could anyone please show me the formula and steps that were involved, thank you.

Now calculate # of operations performed in 1 minute.