SOLUTION: express the number 0.0000722 in scientific notation

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Question 880603: express the number 0.0000722 in scientific notation
Answer by Fombitz(32388)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Count the number of places you have to move the decimal point to place it between the 7 and the 2.
There are 5 places.
This becomes your exponent (negative because the number is less than 1).


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