Intro to Scientific Notation

Intro to Scientific Notation

Multiple Choice

Scientific Notation is used to represent

• Only Really big Numbers

• Only Really Small Number

• Both Really Big and Small Numbers

• Shoe Size

Multiple Choice

The rule of scientific notation is to write all exponents with a base of ____.

• 50

• 5

• 100

• 10

Multiple Choice

When writing a number in scientific notation, the first number must be greater than 1, but less than 10.

• False

• True

Multiple Choice

Scientific Notation is made up of two number parts. The first part should be a number between 1 and 100.

• True

• False

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Scientific Notation is made up of two number parts. The second part is a power of base 10.

• True
• False

Scientific Notation

• 1st Number between 1 and 10

• 2nd Number base 10 With an exponent

Multiple Choice

Which of the following is correct scientific notation?

• 20.35 x 10⁴

• .2035 x 10⁴

• 2035 ⁴

• 2.035 x10⁴

Multiple Choice

Which number is correctly written in scientific notation?

• 5.67 x 10⁵

• 56.7 x 10³

• 0.567 x 10⁶

Large Numbers will have Positive Exponents

Really Small Numbers will have Negative Exponents

Multiple Choice

UNDERSTANDING

If the exponent is a negative number...

• you will get a large number

• you will get a small number

Multiple Choice

UNDERSTANDING

If the exponent is a positive number...

• you will get a large number

• you will get a smaller number

Multiple Choice

Convert to scientific notation:

520,000,000

• 52 x 10⁷

• 5.2 x 10⁷

• 5.2 x 10⁸

• 0.52 x 10⁹

Multiple Choice

How would you write 0.0005 in scientific notation?

• 50 x 10^-5

• 5 x 10^-4

• 5 x 10³

• .5 x 10³

Multiple Choice

How would you write 5.6 x 10^-3 in standard form?

• 0.0056

• 5,600

• 0.00056

• -0.0056

Multiple Choice

How would you write 4.3756 x 10⁴ in standard form?

• 437,560,000

• 0.00043756

• 43,756

• 4,3756