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# In recent a chip can compute 1.026*1015 operations per 1 second. How m

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In recent a chip can compute $$1.026 \times 10^{15}$$ operations per 1 second. How many hours it took the chip to compute 1 million mega-operations (mega-operations=1 million operations)

A. $$3 \times 10^{-5}$$
B. $$3 \times 10^{-6}$$
C. $$3 \times 10^{-7}$$
D. $$3 \times 10^{-8}$$
E. $$3 \times 10^{-9}$$

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"Only $79 for 1 month Online Course" "Free Resources-30 day online access & Diagnostic Test" "Unlimited Access to over 120 free video lessons - try it yourself" Originally posted by MathRevolution on 10 Jan 2016, 18:36. Last edited by mikemcgarry on 07 Feb 2017, 12:13, edited 2 times in total. Reformatted the question to proper mathematical notation. Math Expert Joined: 02 Aug 2009 Posts: 7987 Re: In recent a chip can compute 1.026*1015 operations per 1 second. How m [#permalink] ### Show Tags 10 Jan 2016, 20:18 MathRevolution wrote: In recent a chip can compute 1.026*1015 operations per 1 second. How many hours it took the chip to compute 1 million mega-operations (mega-operations=1 million operations) A. 3*10-5 B. 3*10-6 C. 3*10-7 D. 3*10-8 E. 3*10-9 *A solution is going to be uploaded in two days. Hi, the Q if done the way it is written does not find an answer in the choice... some Typo error may be... 1 million mega operations= 10^6*10^6=10^12.. 1.026*1015 nearly 10^3 operations in 1 sec... 10^3 *3600 in 1 hour.. 1 op in 1/(10^3 *3600 )... 10^12 op in 10^12/(10^3 *3600 )... 10^9/3600= nearly 3*10^5... ans A, if 10-5 was meant to be 10^5.... _________________ Math Revolution GMAT Instructor Joined: 16 Aug 2015 Posts: 8017 GMAT 1: 760 Q51 V42 GPA: 3.82 Re: In recent a chip can compute 1.026*1015 operations per 1 second. How m [#permalink] ### Show Tags 12 Jan 2016, 18:43 1 How many hours it took the chip to compute 1 million mega-operations (mega-operations=1 million operations) A. 3*10-5 B. 3*10-6 C. 3*10-7 D. 3*10-8 E. 3*10-9 → From 1.026*10^16:1 sec=1 million mega-operation:n=10^6*10^6:n, it becomes n=10^12/1.026*10^15 sec. That is, 10^12/1.026*10^15 sec=10^12/(1.026*10^15*3,600)hr=3*10^-7 hr. Therefore, the answer is C. _________________ MathRevolution: Finish GMAT Quant Section with 10 minutes to spare The one-and-only World’s First Variable Approach for DS and IVY Approach for PS with ease, speed and accuracy. "Only$79 for 1 month Online Course"
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13 Jan 2016, 13:52
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How many hours it took the chip to compute 1 million mega-operations (mega-operations=1 million operations)
A. 3*10-5 B. 3*10-6 C. 3*10-7 D. 3*10-8 E. 3*10-9

→ From 1.026*10^16:1 sec=1 million mega-operation:n=10^6*10^6:n, it becomes n=10^12/1.026*10^15 sec. That is, 10^12/1.026*10^15 sec=10^12/(1.026*10^15*3,600)hr=3*10^-7 hr. Therefore, the answer is C.

I was about to support and reiterate Chetan4u's solution, but then I figured out where the typo is in the question!

The question is supposed to read:
A new computer chip can compute $$1.026*10^{15}$$ operations per second. How many hours will it take the chip to compute 1 million mega-operations (mega-operations=1 million operations)?

A. $$3*10^{-5}$$
B. $$3*10^{-6}$$
C. $$3*10^{-7}$$
D. $$3*10^{-8}$$
E. $$3*10^{-9}$$

Now we can answer the question the way it was intended.

We are told that a computer chip can perform $$1.026*10^{15}$$ operations per second, and we are asked how many hours it will take for the ship to perform one million million operations ($$10^{12}$$ operations). Since each of the answer choices are separated by a power of 10, then we can safely approximate $$1.026*10^{15} = 1*10^{15}$$.

We can find the number of seconds it will take to perform $$10^{12}$$ operations by dividing the number of operations by the number of operations per second:

$$\frac{12^{12}}{10^{15}} = 10^{-3}$$ seconds.

Now to convert seconds to hours, we need to divide $$10^{-3}$$ seconds by 3600 seconds per hour. Again, since the answer choices are spread out by powers of 10, we can approximate:

$$\frac{10^{-3}}{3.6*10^3} = \frac{10^{-6}}{3.6} ≈ 3*10^{-7}$$

So the answer should be C

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