SCIENTIFIC NOTATION

Convert to scientific notation       Convert to standard notation  1.92 X 10 3  3.51 X  2.30 X 10 4  1,901 X 10 2  9.11 X 10 3  1.76 X 10 0 USE THE WHITE BOARDS TO ANSWER THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS

Scientific notation: A method for expressing and working with very ___________________ or very ___________________ numbers gram 3.27 X grams 602,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 atoms 6.02 X atoms

To write a number in scientific notation: Put a decimal point after the first digit and drop the zeroes. 146,000,000 =

To find the exponent, count the number of places from the decimal to the end of the numbers. 146,000,000 has __________ places 146,000,000 = __________

Note that the places start _________the decimal point 146,000,000 = 1.46 X 10 8 Don’t’ just add ______ zero’s after the six!

1.46 X 10 8