How do you write $2.8times10^ 5$ in standard form?

Question

5746 views around the world

You can reuse this answer
Creative Commons License

Answer 1 · 2016-12-23T02:47:50

280000

To write the value in standard form remove the exponents.

$10^5 = 10 xx 10 xx 10 xx 10 xx 10$

Each time you multiply by 10 the decimal is moved one place to the right so

the answer is 280,000

How do you write 2.8times10^ 52.8times10^ 5 in standard form?