Hi,

Scientific notation is a shorter way to express .00097: in terms of a 9.7 and a power of ten.

.0097 = 9.7 * .001 





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Note: some people just count the spaces from the decimal point 

either backwards as in this case with a negatve power

or forwards as in the case of 97000. (9.7*10^4) with a positive power

to arrive at the proper power of ten to use in the Scientific notation 

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