Cutworms can be harmful to plants, so gardeners sometimes use beneficial nematodes to kill cutworm larvae. A cutworm larva is about
4
10
2
meters in length. Surprisingly, a beneficial nematode is far smaller, only about
2
10
3
meters in length.
Use these numbers to complete the sentence below. Write your answer in standard form, without using exponents.
A beneficial nematode is about times as long as a cutworm larva.
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