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What is scientific notation?
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Scientific notation is a short hand way of writing very large numbers or very small numbers. It is expressed as a decimal number.
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What is 123,000,000,000 written in scientific notation?
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1.23 times 10 to the 11th power
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What is .00000001 written in scientific notation?
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1.0 times 10 to the -8th power
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say you had 3.1 times 10 to the -4th, what would that number actually be written out?
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31,000
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4.1 times 10 to the -3rd power written out is?
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.0041
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if you have a negative exponant which way do you move the decimal?
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left
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if you have apositive exponant which way do you move the decimal?
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right
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