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Converting Numbers to Scientific Notation

The document explains scientific notation, which is used to express very large or small numbers in the form M x 10^n, where M is between 1 and 10 and n indicates the decimal movement. It provides examples of converting numbers to and from scientific notation, illustrating the process with various numerical conversions. The document includes exercises for practice in both converting to scientific notation and standard notation.

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Converting Numbers to Scientific Notation

The document explains scientific notation, which is used to express very large or small numbers in the form M x 10^n, where M is between 1 and 10 and n indicates the decimal movement. It provides examples of converting numbers to and from scientific notation, illustrating the process with various numerical conversions. The document includes exercises for practice in both converting to scientific notation and standard notation.

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Scientific Notation

Scientists very often deal with very small and very large numbers, which can lead to a lot of confusion
when counting zeros! We have learned to express these numbers as powers of 10.

Scientific notation takes the form of M x 10n where 1≤ M < 10 and n represents the number of
decimal places to be moved. Positive n indicates the standard form is larger than one, whereas
negative n would indicate a number smaller than one.

Example 1: Convert 1,500,000 to scientific notation.


Move the decimal point so that there is only one digit to its left, a total
of 6 places.
1,500,000 = 1.5 x 106

Example 2: Convert 0.00025 to scientific notation.


For this, move the decimal point 4 places to the right.
0.00025 = 2.5 x 10-4
(Note that when a number starts out less than one, the exponent is
always negative.)

Convert the following to scientific notation.

1. 0.005 = 5 x 10^-3
_____________________ 6. 0.25 = 2.5 x 10 ^ -1
_____________________

5.05 x 10 ^3 2.5 x 10 ^-2


2. 5,050 = _____________________ 7. 0.025 = _____________________
8 x 10 ^-4 2.5 x 10 ^ -3
3. 0.0008 = _____________________ 8. 0.0025 = _____________________
1 x 10^3 5 x 10 ^2
4. 1,000 = _____________________ 9. 500 = _____________________
1 x 10 ^ 6 5 x 10 ^3
5. 1,000,000 = _____________________ 10. 5,000 = _____________________

Convert the following to standard notation.

1. 1.5 x 103 = 1,500


_____________________ 6. 3.35 x 10-1 = 0.335
_____________________
0.0015 0.00012
2. 1.5 x 10-3 = _____________________ 7. 1.2 x 10-4 = _____________________

3. 3.75 x 10-2 = 0.0375


_____________________ 8. 1 x 104 = 10,000
_____________________

4. 3.75 x 10 =
2 375
_____________________ 9. 1 x 10
-1
= 0.1
_____________________

5. 2.2 x 105 = 220,000


_____________________ 10. 4 x 100 = 4
_____________________

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