Question 140342: how would i express the following numbers in scientific notations 0.00000000016 Found 2 solutions by stanbon, josmiceli:Answer by stanbon(75887) (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website! how would i express the following numbers in scientific notations 0.00000000016
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Scientific numbers are a product of a number between 0 and 10 and some power
of 10.
Move you decimal point ten places to the right to get 1.6
If you multiplied that by 10^-10 you would have your original number.
So your number in scientific notation is 1.6 x 10^-10
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Cheers,
Stan H.
You can put this solution on YOUR website!
You need to move the decimal point to the right until
you get
Each time you move it one place to the right, you are
actually multiplying the number by , so every
time you do this, you've got to multiply by
to cancel the effect answer
All these answers are equal to the given number, but
the one you want is the last one because scientific
notation uses one number to the left of the decimal
point times to whatever exponent gives
you the number you want
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