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    The document provides an introduction to scientific notation, which is used to concisely express very large or very small numbers. It explains that scientific notation involves writing a number as the product of a number between 1 and 10 and a power of 10. The exponent indicates how many places the decimal is moved to write the number in standard form. Several examples are given of converting numbers between standard and scientific notation to illustrate positive and negative exponents.

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    The document provides an introduction to scientific notation, which is used to concisely express very large or very small numbers. It explains that scientific notation involves writing a number as the product of a number between 1 and 10 and a power of 10. The exponent indicates how many places the decimal is moved to write the number in standard form. Several examples are given of converting numbers between standard and scientific notation to illustrate positive and negative exponents.

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    ScientificNotationWSName______________________________________Period___Date_____

    Ode,tothescientificcodeforexpressinghugequantitiesandultratinyamountsinafasterway.
    Howmanycellsmakethebody?Howmucharsenicisinyourdrinkingwater?Howmanycarbonatomsmakethe
    pencilleadofanewpencil?Whatisthesizeofaparticleofpolleninmillimeters?Theseamountsaresolargeor
    sotinythatweusescientificnotationtosayhowmuch.Inrealworldscience,writingorreadingthereal
    numbersforsuchamountsisnotfunandnoteasy.

    Writingnumbersinscientificnotationproperly:
    1.ThecoefficientThenumberinfrontofthedecimalpointMUSTbelessthan10.

    2.TheExponent:Timestentothewhat?
    a.TheexponentthatisnegativeexpresseshowmanytimesthedecimalpointismovedtotheLEFT
    toshowtheactualquantity.(negativeexponent,tinyamount)
    b.TheexponentthatispositiveexpresseshowmanytimesthedecimalpointmovestotheRIGHT
    toshowtheactualquantity.(positiveexponent,bigamount)

    1
    2
    3
    4
    5
    6
    7
    8
    9
    10

    Putitinscientificnotation
    5

    201,000
    8900
    400
    0.09
    0.0032
    0.047
    170
    670,000,000
    0.00030
    50

    2.01x10

    Putitinstandardnotation

    Putitinscientificnotation

    11
    12
    13
    14
    15
    16
    17
    18
    19
    20

    0.02
    0.0000605
    60
    200
    8750
    25,000
    9070
    620,500
    1250
    0.25

    2x102

    Putitinstandardnotation
    5

    21

    2x10

    0.02

    31

    2.01x10

    201,000

    22

    4x106

    32

    4.953x105

    23

    3.23x103

    33

    4.95x105

    24

    6x10

    34

    8x10

    25

    35

    26

    5.6x103
    7.10x105

    36

    5.01x103
    7.105x106

    27

    8x104

    37

    9.5x104

    28

    9.01x105

    38

    3.87x107

    29

    4.2x10

    39

    8x10

    30

    2.8x101

    40

    1x103

    ScientificNotationWSName___________________________period__date__
    PositiveExponentExample:Convert4.01x102.Wemovethedecimalpointtwoplacestotheright
    making401instandardnotation.
    NegativeExponentExample:Convert5.7x103.Wemovethedecimalpointthreeplacestotheleft
    making0.0057instandardnotation.
    WritethequantityinStandardNotationusingcommasinamountslargerthan9999

    Scientific
    Notation

    StandardNotation

    Scientific
    Notation

    7x107

    6.1x1011

    2x106

    5.73x105

    8x108

    10

    2.8x1012

    8.13x109

    11

    8.34x1010

    1.93x1010

    12

    1.1x105

    2x1010

    13

    4x104

    3x108

    14

    3.4x105

    StandardNotation

    Example:Positiveexponentsrefertoamountslargerthanone.Towrite30,400in
    scientificnotationwemovethedecimalpoint4placestotheleft,soitbecomes3.04x
    104.
    Example:Negativeexponentsrefertoamountssmallerthanone.Towrite0.000012in
    scientificnotationwemustmovethedecimalpoint5placestotheright:1.2x105.
    Whatisonethen?Answer:1=1x100orjust100

    StandardNotation ScientificNotation

    Standard
    Notation

    60,000,000

    0.00000057

    461,000

    24,000

    0.00000027

    10

    0.000802

    210,000,000,000

    11

    0.00000679

    0.00000625

    12

    36,000,000

    5,200,000

    13

    46,000

    0.00076

    14

    0.0041

    ScientificNotation

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