How do you write 0.00000002 in scientific notation?

1 Answer
May 8, 2018

I tried this:

Explanation:

The idea is to write the first non zero number mutiplied by a power of 10.

To evaluate the power we move the point to the right to pass the first non zero and count the jumps to use the number of jumps as NEGATIVE power of 10.
In our case we move: 8 times the point to the right (passing the 2) so our number becomes:

2×108