Scientific Notation

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What is scientific notation?

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A way to express very large or very small numbers using powers of ten.

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What does a negative exponent in scientific notation indicate?

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The original number is a really small number.

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Which of the following is correctly written in scientific notation? 5.67 x 10^5, 56.7 x 10^3, 0.567 x 10^6

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5.67 x 10^5

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What is the coefficient of 23,400,000 in scientific notation?

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2.34

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Which of the following is correctly written in scientific notation? 8.2 x 10^2, 82 x 10^7, 3.45 x 9^4

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8.2 x 10^2

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What does the exponent in scientific notation tell you?

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It indicates how many places to move the decimal point.

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Convert 0.00056 to scientific notation.

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5.6 x 10^-4

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Convert 450,000 to scientific notation.

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4.5 x 10^5

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What is the scientific notation for 1,000,000,000?

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1 x 10^9

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If a number is written as 3.2 x 10^4, what is the original number?

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32,000