Scientific notation

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What is scientific notation?

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A method of expressing numbers as a product of a number between 1 and 10 and a power of 10.

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What is the general form of scientific notation?

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a x 10^n, where 1 ≤ a < 10 and n is an integer.

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What does the exponent in scientific notation represent?

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

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Convert 3.5 x 10^3 to standard notation.

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3,500

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Convert 4.2 x 10^-2 to standard notation.

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.042

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What is 1 x 10^0 in standard notation?

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1

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Which of the following is true about scientific notation?

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The number in front must be between 1 and 9.9.

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What is the purpose of using scientific notation?

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To simplify the representation of very large or very small numbers.

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Convert 9.8 x 10^5 to standard notation.

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980,000

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Convert 7.0 x 10^-4 to standard notation.

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.0007