Question

the smallest mammal is kittis hog nosed bat weighing about 4.375 x 10^-3. write this weight in standard form

Answer 1

To mutliply by 10^-3 we move the decimal to the left 3 places, adding 0's on the left if needed. We need them here so

00004.375*10^-3 =

00.004375

and then dropping the extra 0, we get

0.004375