scientific notation with positive powers of 10. warm up simplify each expression
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Scientific Notation with Positive Powers of 10
Warm UpSimplify each expression.
• How many places to the left did you move the decimal point to write 41,200 in scientific notation?
• What is the exponent on 10 when you write 41,200 in scientific notation?
Is 12 x 107 written in scientific notation?
Explain.
Write each number in scientific notation.
• 6400
• 570,000,000,000
• A light-year is the distance that light travels in a year and is equivalent to 9,461,000,000,000 km. Write this distance in scientific notation.
• Explain why the exponents in 3.5 x 106 is 6, while there are only 5 zeros in 3,500,000.
• What is the exponent on 10 when you write 5.3 in scientific notation?
Write each number in standard notation.
• 7.034 x 109
• 2.36 x 105
• The mass of one roosting colony of Monarch butterflies in Mexico was estimated at 5 x 106 grams. Write this mass in standard notation.