A teacher asked four students to estimate the length of a grain of rice. Jack answered 4.5 x 10^-3 kilometer, Lilly answered 4.5 x 10^-3meter, Diego answered 4.5 x 10^-3vcentimeter, and Willa answered 4.5 x 10^-3 millimeter. Who gave the best answer

Lilly

Step-by-step explanation:

According to the literature, the length of a medium grain rice is between 5.3 and 5.9 mm. Let's take the average (5.6 mm) and convert it to meters to compare it with the estimations. We will use the conversion factor 1 m = 1000 mm.

5.6 mm × 1 m/1000 mm = 5.6 × 10⁻³ m

Jack answered 4.5 × 10⁻³ kilometers. We will convert it to meters using the conversion factor 1 km = 1000 m.

4.5 × 10⁻³ km × 1000 m/1 km = 4.5 m

Lilly answered 4.5 × 10⁻³ meters.

Diego answered 4.5 × 10⁻³ centimeters. We will convert it to meters using the conversion factor 1 m = 100 cm.

4.5 × 10⁻³ cm × 1 m/100 cm = 4.5 × 10⁻⁵ m

Willa answered 4.5 × 10⁻³ millimeters. We will convert it to meters using the conversion factor 1 m = 1000 mm.

4.5 × 10⁻³ mm × 1 m/1000 mm = 4.5 × 10⁻⁶ m

As we can see, Lilly gave the best answer (same order of magnitude).

9 x 8 divided by (5-3)=36