Scientific Notation

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What is scientific notation?

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A way of expressing numbers that are too large or too small to be conveniently written in decimal form, using powers of ten.

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How do you convert a number to scientific notation?

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Move the decimal point in the number until only one non-zero digit remains to the left of the decimal point, then multiply by 10 raised to the number of places the decimal was moved.

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What is the standard form of 4.3756 x 10^4?

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43,756

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Which of the following is in scientific notation: 20.35 x 10^4, 0.2035 x 10^4, 2035^4, 2.035 x 10^4?

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2.035 x 10^4

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How do you write 0.0005 in scientific notation?

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5 x 10^-4

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What is the standard form of 8.317 x 10^6?

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8,317,000

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Convert 520,000,000 to scientific notation.

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5.2 x 10^8

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What is the exponent in scientific notation?

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The exponent indicates how many places to move the decimal point to convert to standard form.

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What is the difference between standard form and scientific notation?

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Standard form is the usual way of writing numbers, while scientific notation expresses numbers as a product of a number between 1 and 10 and a power of ten.

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How do you multiply numbers in scientific notation?

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Multiply the coefficients and add the exponents.