The height of Mount Everest in meters can be found by multip

The height of Mount Everest, in meters, can be found by multiplying 8.85 by 1,000. Find the height of Mount Everest. Explain your answer.

Solution

Height of Mount everest

= 8.85 x 1000

To multiply this let us ignore the decimals first and then multiply.

885 x 1000 = 885000

Now let us see how many digits are there after the decimal point in 8.85. There are 2 digits (8 and 5 after decimal point).

So we put a decimal point after digits from right side even in our answer.

So, height of Mount everest = 8850.00 (or) 8850 meters