document.write( "Question 356306: Can you please help me write .00097 in scientific notation? \n" ); document.write( "

Algebra.Com's Answer #254349 by ewatrrr(24785) $\"\"$ $\"About$

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document.write( "Hi,
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document.write( "Scientific notation is a shorter way to express .00097: in terms of a 9.7 and a power of ten.
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document.write( ".0097 = 9.7 * .001 
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document.write( "Note: some people just count the spaces from the decimal point 
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document.write( "either backwards as in this case with a negatve power
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document.write( "or forwards as in the case of 97000. (9.7*10^4) with a positive power
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document.write( "to arrive at the proper power of ten to use in the Scientific notation \n" );
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