Question

How do you write `1.4 times10 ^ -3` in standard notation?

Answer 1

`0.0014`

Explanation:

just move the decimal to the left 3 times.

Answer 2

`.0014`

Explanation:

There's a neat trick for this. You just look at your starting value, `1.4`, and you shift the decimal over 3 places. You know which direction to move it to by looking at the exponenet and checking if it is negative (-) or positive (+). In this case `10^-3` is risen to a negative nmber, meaning the value of `1.4` should decrese, which means moving to decimal point to the left, like how the numbers on the left on a timeling are the more negativenumbers.

Now we have 0.0014, which we got by shifting the decimal to the left `3` places.