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COMPARING NUMBERS IN SCIENTIFIC NOTATION SOLUTIONS

TASK 1 How much bigger?

1 8 × 107 is the larger by a factor of 103 2 7 × 106 is the larger by a factor of 106 so it is
so it is a thousand times larger. 1 000 000 times larger (1 million times larger).

3 −4 is smaller than −3 so 2 × 10−3 is larger by 4 −5 is smaller than 2 so 9 × 102 is the larger.

a factor of 101. That is, it is 10 times larger.
The difference between −5 and 2 is 7.
101 = 10
So 9 × 102 is 107 times larger or 10 million
times larger.

TASK 2 Order these numbers

The list below shows the numbers arranged in ascending order.

Smallest 5 × 10−8
3 × 10−6
1 × 10−4
9 × 10−4
2 × 10−3
8 × 10−1
6 × 101
6 × 102
4 × 103
9 × 103
7 × 105
Largest 7 × 106

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