Scientific Notation Review

Distance from Earth to the Sun Standard Notation: 149,600,000,000 meters

Diameter of a red blood cell Standard Notation: 0.0000075 meters

Convert to scientific notation

679 000 000 000    

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1. Speed of a supercomputer (operations per second)
   Standard Notation: 300,000,000,000,000,000 operations/sec

• 3 x 10^17 operations/sec
• 3 x 10^18 operations/sec

• 3 x 10^16 operations/sec

• 74.2

• 7 420

• 0.742

• 0.00742

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1. Size of a typical virus: 1.2 x 10^-7 meters

• 1.  0.00000012 meters

• 1.  0.000000000012 meters

• 1.  0.0000012 meters

1. Diameter of the Milky Way Galaxy Standard Notation: 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 meters
   

• 1 x 10^20 meters
• 1 x 10^21 meters
• 1 x 10^22 meters

• 2 300

• 230 000

• 0.0023

• 0.023

Convert to standard notation:
3.05 x 10⁵ 

• 305,000
• 305
• 3,050,000
• 30,500

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Convert to scientific notation

0.0008921

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