Scientific Notation Quiz

What is scientific notation?

• A long way to write numbers containing a few digits
• A short way to write numbers containing many, many digits
• A number written without exponents
• None of the above

Scientific Notation is a product of two terms. The first term should be a factor between 1 and 100.

• True
• False

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

• 50
• 5
• 100
• 10

If the exponent is a positive number, ____________.

• you will get a larger number because you are multiplying
• you will get a smaller number because you are dividing
• you will get a larger number because you are dividing
• you will get a smaller number because you are multiplying

If the exponent is a negative number, _____________.

• you will get a larger number, because you are dividing
• you will get a smaller number, because you are dividing
• you will get a larger number because you are multiplying
• you will get a smaller number because you are multiplying

Which of these numbers are NOT in scientific notation?

• 1.2 x 10³
• 5.3 x 10⁹
• 2.0 x 10⁰
• 10 x 10²

Which one of these numbers is in scientific notation?

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

The first term in scientific notation must be _________.

• greater than 0 and less than 10
• greater than or equal to 1 and smaller than 10
• greater than 1 and less than 9
• greater than 0 and less than 9

How do you write
8.317 x 10⁶
in standard decimal notation?

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

Express the following in
standard decimal notation:
8.025 x 10^-8

• 0.00000008025
• -0.000000008025
• -802,500,000,000
• 80,250,000,000