Scientific Notations Multiplications and Quotients

The first number in scientific notation must be...

• between and including 0 and 10

• between and including 1 and 9.9999

• between and including 0 and 9.999

• between and including 1 and 10

A rectangular section of land made up of wheat farms measures 5 x 10⁴ meters and a width of 6 x 10³ meters. What is the area of land in square meters? [Area = length x width]

What operation do you use?

• addition

• subtraction

• multiplication

• division

The US spends an average of 1.02x10⁴ dollars on each student per year. There are about 7.6x10⁷ students in the US. About how much money total is spent on students per year?

• 7.752 x 10¹¹

• 7.752 x 10²⁸

• 8.62 x 10¹¹

• 8.62 x 10²⁸

How would you write 0.0005 in scientific notation?

• 50 x 10⁵

• 5 x 10^-4

• 5 x 10³

• .5 x 10^-3

(8.4 * 10⁶)/(2.1 * 10³)

• 0.4 * 10⁴

• 400 * 10^-3

• 4 * 10³

• 4 * 10²

5 x 10¹²
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2 x 10⁶

• 2.5 x 10²

• 2.5 x 10⁶

• 3 x 10²

• 2.5 x 10¹⁸

2 x 10⁵
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8 x 10²

• 2.5 x 10⁴

• 2.5 x 10²

• 25 x 10³

• 0.25 x 10³

How would you write 4.3756 x 10⁴ in standard form?

• 437,560,000

• 0.00043756

• 43,756

• 4,3756