Please help. I'll give you extra points.

See below

Step-by-step explanation:

Part A: For the current year, we notice that the price of corn is directly proportional to the number of bushels at a rate of $8 per bushel. We know this because 2 bushels * $8 = $16, 4 bushels * $8 = $32, and so on.

Part B: The rate for the previous year is $6 per bushel, so the current year rate is $2 more than the rate for the previous year

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.