How do you express $50,000,000$ in scientific form?

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Answer 1 · 2017-04-13T13:52:07

$5 xx 10^7$

Scientific notation is a way of writing very big or very numbers using powers of 10.

The powers of $10$ are: $10," "100," "1000," "10000 ...$ etc

$100 = 10^2" and 100,000 = 10^5$ and so on.

$400$ means there are 4 hundreds, or
$400 = 4 xx 100 = 4 xx 10^2$
$435$ means there is a bit more than 4 hundreds, or

$4.35 xx100 = 4.35xx 10^2$

There is always only ONE digit before the decimal point.

$5color(red)(0,000,000.) = 5 xx10^color(red)(7)$

Count how many place holders there are.

$5color(red)(1,300,000.)$ would be written as $5.35 xx 10^color(red)(7)$

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