SOLUTION: Science and medicine. The mass of the sun is approximately 1.99* 10^30kg. If this were written in standard or decimal form, how many 0s would follow the digit 8? Please help?

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Question 77086: Science and medicine. The mass of the sun is approximately 1.99* 10^30kg. If this were written in standard or decimal form, how many 0s would follow the digit 8?
Please help?
Answer by checkley75(3666) About Me  (Show Source):
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I don't see the digit 8 therefore I don't know where to start counting zeros?
in decimal form the number is 1,990,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000kg.
(10^30) requires the decimal place to be moved 30 places to the right.