Scientific Notation

What is scientific notation?

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

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

• 50
• 5
• 100
• 10

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UNDERSTANDING
If the exponent is a positive number...

• you will get a large number
• you will get a smaller number

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UNDERSTANDING
If the exponent is a negative number...

• you will get a large number
• you will get a small number

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ANY number raised to a power of 0 will be....

• 10
• itself
• 1
• 0

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Write in standard form: 
8 x 10⁴

• 8,000
• 80,000
• .00008

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Which number is correctly written in scientific notation?

• 5.67 x 10⁵
• 56.7 x 10³
• 0.567 x 10⁶

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Convert to scientific notation:
520,000,000  

• 52 x 10⁷
• 5.2 x 10⁷
• 5.2 x 10⁸
• 0.52 x 10⁹

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The first number in scientific notation must be...

• Bigger than 0 and smaller than 10
• Bigger than 1 and smaller than 10
• Bigger than 1 and smaller than 9
• Bigger than 0 and smaller than 9

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When your exponent is negative, you move your decimal....

• to the right
• to the left
• to both sides
• nowhere.... the decimal goes nowhere

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