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Produced by MEI on behalf of OCR © OCR 2013 This table shows the number of visitors to four tourist attractions … Blackpool tourist information service claimed it had more visitors than the other three added together How do you know if this is true? Blackpool Pleasure Beach6·2 million Edinburgh Castle Alton Towers4·07 x 10 5 Madame Tussauds2·6 million
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Produced by MEI on behalf of OCR © OCR 2013 Working with big numbers The distance of the earth from the sun is about 149 million km We can write this as It is usual to leave a space after every three digits from the right.
Produced by MEI on behalf of OCR © OCR 2013 Working with big numbers This makes the numbers easier to read and the zeroes easier to count Three zeroes at the end reads as a thousand Six zeroes at the end reads as a million So would be written as and would read as million
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Writing in Standard Form Ordinary Number Standard Form Write the number in standard form Remember if a number is in standard form it must have 1 number before the decimal point So Write the number with the decimal point after the first non zero number In this case 8.76 What do you need to multiply by to make this the number we wanted?
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Produced by MEI on behalf of OCR © OCR 2013 Working with small numbers The size of a Carbon atom is cm – a tiny number How would we write this in standard form? First write the number with the decimal point after the first non zero number This is 2.2 What do you need to multiply this by to get back to the number we want?
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