Scientific Notation (Positive Exponents)

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What is scientific notation?

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A way of expressing numbers as a product of a number between 1 and 10 and a power of 10.

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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 12,501,000 to scientific notation.

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Convert 982,220,000 to scientific notation.

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Convert 480,000,000 to scientific notation.

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Convert 152,650,000,000 to scientific notation.

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65,000.

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What does the exponent in scientific notation represent?

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The exponent indicates how many places to move the decimal point to convert back to standard notation.

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How do you convert scientific notation back to standard notation?

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Move the decimal point to the right according to the exponent value.

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What is the scientific notation for 0.00045?

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