Scientific Notation
  • 1. 7.3 x 10-8
  • 2. 5.6 x 103
  • 3. 3.98 x 10-5
  • 4. 6.98 x 1010
  • 5. 8 x 10-4
  • 6. 9.32 x 10-3
  • 7. 4.87 x 10-10
  • 8. 980,000,000,000,000
  • 9. 0.00000000485
  • 10. 4,800,000,000
  • 11. 2.54
  • 12. 0.0000000000504
  • 13. twenty-two million in scientific notation
  • 14. sixty-six thousand five hundred in scientific notation
  • 15. three billion six-hundred thousand in scientific notation
  • 16. 0.00000000000000101
  • 17. The area of the state of Florida is approximately 65,800 square miles. Write this number in scientific notation?
  • 18. James read that the speed of light is approximately 3.0 × 108 meters per second. He estimates an equivalent speed, in miles per hour, to be 67,108,086. Estimate James' speed to the nearest hundredth in scientific notation.
  • 19. Scientists have estimated that the distance from the Sun to the Earth is approximately 1.5 × 1011 meters. If NASA were sending a space probe from the Earth to the Sun and then the probe traveled from the Sun back to the Earth (round-trip), what is the total distance that the probe will have traveled?
  • 20. Yesterday's headline in the local newspaper read, "Clean-Up from Oil Spill Exceeds $10 billion!" Write 10 billion is scientific notation.
  • 21. As Jack and Kimberly dusted their apartment, they argued about how much dust weighs. They searched the Internet and found that the mass of a million dust particles is 0.000753 kilogram. Write the mass of a million dust particles in scientific notation.
  • 22. The radius of the Milky Way is approximately 3.9 × 1020 meters long. What is that in standard form?
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