Scientific Notation Practice

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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 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. Count the number of places moved; this becomes the exponent of 10.

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Convert 34,060,000 to scientific notation.

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0.00000483.

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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. Count the number of places moved; this becomes a negative exponent of 10.

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Convert 0.0000037 to scientific notation.

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No, it's not in scientific notation.

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8,317,000.

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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. A positive exponent means move to the right, and a negative exponent means move to the left.

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How do you identify if a number is in scientific notation?

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