How do you write $5.1 times 10^-5$ in standard notation?

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Answer 1 · 2016-01-06T13:52:22

0.000051

$5.1 xx 10^-5$

is in standard form or scientific notation. What I have assumed you perhaps mean is how do you write it as a number.

using $10^-5 = 1/10^5$

$rArr 5.1/10^5 = 5.1/100000$

$rArr 5.1 xx 10^-5 = 0.000051$

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