How do you express $5.50 times 10^26$ in standard notation?

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Answer 1 · 2017-01-09T23:57:20

Because the exponent for the 10s term is positive we need to move the decimal point 26 places to the right:

$5.50 xx 10^ 26 = 550,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000.0$

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