document.write( "<A HREF=/cgi-bin/jump-to-question.mpl?question=1172855>Question 1172855</A>: <I><SPAN STYLE=\"word-break: break-all;\"> Whats the number in standard form?<BR>\n" );
document.write( "#1. 3.41x10^7   #2. 4.05x10^-4<BR>\n" );
document.write( "And what is 6,500,000,000 in scientific notation </SPAN>\n" );
document.write( "</I><HR><TABLE width=100%><TR><TD><B><A HREF=http://www.algebra.com/>Algebra.Com's</A> Answer #797997 by </B><A HREF=/tutors/aboutme.mpl?userid=Theo><B>Theo(13342)</B></A><img src=\"/images/stars/stars-13.gif\" alt=\"\" >&nbsp;<A HREF=/tutors/aboutme.mpl?userid=Theo><IMG SRC=http://www.algebra.com/images/aboutme-small.gif BORDER=0 alt=\"About Me\" VALIGN=MIDDLE></A>&nbsp;<IMG SRC=http://www.algebra.com/cgi-bin/show-face.mpl?user=Theo><BR>You can <A HREF=\"/cgi-bin/embed-solution.mpl?show=1&solution=797997\">put this solution on YOUR website!</A><BR><SPAN STYLE=\"word-break: break-all;\"> to convert 3.41 * 10^7 to standard form, you are moving the decimal point to the right 7 places.<BR>\n" );
document.write( "that gets you 34,100,000.<BR>\n" );
document.write( "moving the decimal point 7 places to the right can be viewed as:<BR>\n" );
document.write( "moving it 2 places to the right to get 341 * 10^5 and then adding five 0's to get 34,100,000\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "to convert 4.05 * 10^-4 to standard form, move the decimal point to the left 4 places.<BR>\n" );
document.write( "move it to the left 1 place and it becomes .405 * 10^-3<BR>\n" );
document.write( "move it to left 3 more places and it becomes .000405\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "to convert 6,500,000,000 to scientific notation, you want to move the decimal point to the left so that it will be just to the right of the first significant digit.\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "in order to dot that, you have to move it to the left 9 places (the commas don't count as a space - remove them before doing the move.<BR>\n" );
document.write( "you get 6500000000. before moving.<BR>\n" );
document.write( "you get 6.5 * 10^9 after moving.\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "how do you know you did it right?<BR>\n" );
document.write( "use your calculator to divide the scientific form by the standard form.<BR>\n" );
document.write( "you should get 1.\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "3.41 * 10^7 / 34100000 = 1, so that was good.<BR>\n" );
document.write( "4.05 * 10^-4 / .000405 = 1, so that was good.<BR>\n" );
document.write( "6.5 * 10^9 / 6500000000 = 1, so that was good.\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "if you try to do it the other way (dividing the standard form by the scientific form), you will need to use parentheses.\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "for example:\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "34100000 / 3.41 * 10^7 will get you 1 * 10^12.<BR>\n" );
document.write( "this is not what what you expected.<BR>\n" );
document.write( "but, 34100000 / (3.41 * 10^7) will get you 1.<BR>\n" );
document.write( "this is what you expected.\r<BR>\n" );
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