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Scientific Notation

Scientific notation is the expression of a number based on the largest exponent of 10 for its value, where the form is a decimal number A x 10n.

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The moon is 406 000 km from the earth Represent this number in scientific notation?

The number 406,000 is equivalent to the scientific notation of 4.06 x 10 to the third power.

How do write 635000 in scientific notation?

To write a number in scientific notation you first need to divide the number by a power of 10 such that the answer has units as the greatest place value. In this case, you can divide by 100,000 to get 6.35. The next step is to represent this power of 10 next to the number as a multiplication. We use 100,000 which is 105. Thus, 635,000 in scientific notation is 6.35x105

What is the scientific notation of 5000?

Note that we interpret 5000 as 5000.0. Move 3 decimal places to the left from the starting point, so the exponent for base 10 is 3. Therefore, 5000 in Scientific Notation is 5 x 103

What is a number expressed in scientific notation?

Scientific notation is a way of writing numbers that are too big or too small to be conveniently written in decimal form.

In normalized scientific notation all numbers are written in the form a x 10^b (a times ten raised to the power of b) where a is a nonzero single-digit integer and b is an integer.

953 in scientific notation is 9.53 x 10^2

Why is scientific notation is useful?

scientific notation is useful because when you are writing out a very large or very small number you dont have to write lots of zero'z
Because sometimes numbers get really big or really small.