How do you write $145,000,000,000$ in scientific notation?

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Answer 1 · 2018-04-11T13:18:16

We need to move the decimal point 11 places to the left therefore the exponent for the 10s term will be positive:

$145,000,000,000 = 145,000,000,000.0 = 1.45 xx 10^11$

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