Scientific Notation & Significant Figures

The speed of light is 300,000 km/s.  This number, when written in scientific notation, is

• 3.0 x 10⁶ km/s
• 30 x 10⁵ km/s
• 3 x 10⁵ km/s
• 0.3 x 10⁶ km/s 

How do you write
8.317 x 10⁶ in standard form?

• 8, 371, 000
• 83, 170, 000
• 837, 100
• 8, 317, 000

How would you write 4.3756 x 10⁴ in standard form?

• 437,560,000
• 0.00043756
• 43,756
• 4,3756

Express the following in standard notation:
8.025 x 10^-4

• .0008025
• .00008025
• 8,0250
• 80,250

When writing a number in scientific notation, the first number must be equal to or greater than 1 and less than 10.

• False
• True

Which of the following is correct scientific notation?

• 20.35 x 10⁴
• .2035 x 10⁴
• 2035 ⁴
• 2.035 x10⁴

What is scientific notation?

• A long way to write really short  numbers
• A short way to write really, really big numbers or really, really small numbers
• I don't know...
• None of the above

Which one of these is in scientific notation?

• 8.987000
• 8.98 x 10⁶
• 80.987 x 10
• 8.98⁶

Tags

CCSS.8.EE.A.3

How do you write
1001
in scientific notation?

• 1.0001 x 10⁴
• 1.01 x 10⁵
• 1.001 x 10³
• 10.1 x 10³

How would you write 0.0005 in scientific notation?

• 50 x 10⁵
• 5 x 10^-4
• 5 x 10^-3
• .5 x 10³