How do you simplify $5.0 times 10^-3 L$ ?

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Answer 1 · 2016-02-22T11:41:18

You can work this out to be $0.0050L$ , because
$10^-3=1/10^3=1/1000$

But most of the time we use prefixes in stead of the $10$ -powers or numbers with a lot of zeroes in front (or behind).

The prefix for $10^-3$ or $1//1000$ th is milli (abbreviated as m)

So:
$5.0*10^-3L=5.0mL$

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