5. A Biology class is collecting samples from a local creek. During week 1 they collected 150,265 samples from the creek. During week 2 they collected 75,280 samples. During the last week of the project, the class collected 101,015 samples.
a Convert the weekly totals to scientific notation
b. Over the course of the project how many total samples did the Biology class collect? (Use the scientific notation form of
the numbers to perform the calculation). Provide your answer in scientific notation Show all work.