Your turn to make the estimates using scientific notation Fe

Your turn to make the estimates using scientific notation! February is when basketball season is in full swing. My question: what is the TOTAL salary paid to ALL basketball players in the NBA?

You’ll need to do a very small ‘research’ to find out:

a) how many basketball players there are per team and how many teams there are.

b) the average salary for an NBA player. Use those numbers – written in scientific notation – to find the TOTAL salary paid to all NBA players this year.

Solution

The TOTAL salary paid to ALL basketball players in the NBA for the year 2017-18 is $ 2,541,878,784 = $ 2.541878784*10⁹ (in Scientific notation).

a). Each NBA team can have a maximum of 15 players, 13 of which can be active each game. There are 30 teams across North America.

b). The TOTAL salary paid to ALL basketball players in the NBA for the year 2017-18 is $ 2,541,878,784 = $ 2.541878784*10⁹ (in Scientific notation). The average salary is $5648620 = $ 5.6*10⁶(in Scientific notation).