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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What is the general format of scientific notation?

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The general format is a number between 1 and 10 multiplied by a power of ten, e.g., a x 10^n.

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What is the coefficient in scientific notation?

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The coefficient is the number that is multiplied by the power of ten, and it must be between 1 and 10.

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How do you convert a large number to scientific notation?

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Move the decimal point to the left until only one non-zero digit remains to the left of the decimal, then count the number of places moved to determine the exponent.

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How do you convert a small number to scientific notation?

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Move the decimal point to the right until only one non-zero digit remains to the left of the decimal, then the exponent will be negative.

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Convert 23,400,000 to scientific notation.

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2.34 x 10^7.

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Convert 0.004078 to scientific notation.

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4.078 x 10^-3.

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What is the standard form of 6.79 x 10^4?

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67,900.

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Which of the following is in scientific notation: 8.98 x 10^6 or 80.987 x 10?

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8.98 x 10^6.

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What does the exponent in scientific notation indicate?

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