From Standard Form to Scientific Notation

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What is scientific notation?

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A way of expressing numbers that are too large or too small to be conveniently written in decimal form, using powers of ten.

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How do you convert a large number to scientific notation?

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Move the decimal point to the left until only one non-zero digit remains to the left of the decimal. Count the number of places moved; this becomes the exponent of 10.

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Convert 16,200,000,000 to scientific notation.

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Convert 0.023 to scientific notation.

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Convert 80,005,000 to scientific notation.

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Convert 40,000,000,000 to scientific notation.

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Convert 0.000402 to scientific notation.

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What is the general form of scientific notation?

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How do you convert a small decimal to scientific notation?

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Move the decimal point to the right until only one non-zero digit remains to the left of the decimal. The exponent of 10 will be negative, indicating the number is less than one.

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What does the exponent in scientific notation indicate?

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The exponent indicates how many places to move the decimal point. A positive exponent means the number is large, while a negative exponent means the number is small.