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Scientific Notation August 27, 2018
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What is scientific notation?
Scientific notation is a way of expressing numbers that are too big or too small to be conveniently written in decimal form.
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What is scientific notation?
A number in scientific notation is written as: a•10n where 1≤a<10 (a is between 1 and 10 and may include 1).
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What is scientific notation?
Examples include: The population of the world is 7 billion people. Standard form: 7,000,000,000 Scientific notation: 7 x109
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What is scientific notation?
Examples include: The distance from the Earth to the sun is 93 million miles. Standard form: 93,000,000 Scientific notation: 9.3 x107
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What is scientific notation?
Examples include: The diameter of a grain of sand is 24 ten-thousandths inch. Standard form: .0024 Scientific notation: 2.4 x10-3
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What is scientific notation?
Examples include: 3.4• • •10150 The first number is between 1 and 10 and may include 1. The exponent may be positive or negative.
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What is scientific notation?
Examples DO NOT include: -3.2• •106 The first number MUST be between 1 and 10 (and may include 1).
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How to write in scientific notation?
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How to write in scientific notation?
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