Michael lives in the northwest corner of clark county. clara
lives 44 kilometers away in the southeast corner and the office
where they work is directly between them. on monday, michael
took the bus into work, taking a direct route at 47 kilometers per
hour. clara left at the same time, taking her car along a direct
route at a speed of 61 kilometers per hour. the two coworkers
arrive at the office at the same time. how long did the commute
take? round your answer to the hundredths place.

On the way home from visiting his family, vincent’s plane cruised at an altitude of 3.2 × 10^4 feet. he had heard that a man named felix baumgartner skydived from an altitude of 1.28 × 10^5 feet. vincent wants to know how much higher felix went on his skydiving trip. question 1 you have already seen how adding numbers works in either scientific notation or standard notation. but can you subtract numbers in scientific notation and get the same results as subtracting in standard notation? to find out, first solve vincent’s problem in standard notation. part a write the cruising altitude of vincent’s plane in standard notation.